Taxonavigation

(Unranked): Virus
Realm: Varidnaviria
Regnum: Bamfordvirae
Phylum: Nucleocytoviricota
Class: Megaviricetes
Ordo: Pimascovirales
Familia: Iridoviridae
Subfamiliae: Alphairidovirinae – Betairidovirinae
Genera (overview): Chloriridovirus – Daphniairidovirus – Decapodiridovirus – Iridovirus – Lymphocystivirus – Megalocytivirus – Ranavirus

Name

Iridoviridae

References

• Hyatt, A.D., Gould, A.R., Zupanovic, Z., Cunningham, A.A., Hengstberger, S., Whittington, R.J., Kattenbelt, J. & Coupar, B.E.H. 2000: Comparative studies of piscine and amphibian iridoviruses. Arch. Virol., 145: 301–331.
• Mao, J., Hedrick, R.P. & Chinchar, V.G. 1997: Molecular characterization, sequence analysis and taxonomic position of newly isolated fish iridoviruses. Virology, 229: 212–220.
• Stasiak, K., Renault, S., Demattei, M.-V., Bigot, Y. & Federici, B.A. 2003: Evidence for the evolution of ascoviruses from iridoviruses. J. Gen. Virol., 84: 2999–3009.
• Index of Viruses - Iridoviridae (2009). In: ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database, version 4. Büchen-Osmond, C. (Ed), Columbia University, New York, USA.

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