Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, 611-0011, Japan.
Laboratory of Biology, Institute of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8601, Japan.
Arch Virol. 2023 Feb 5;168(3):80. doi: 10.1007/s00705-022-05633-1.
Acanthamoeba castellanii medusavirus J1 is a giant virus that was isolated from a hot spring in Japan in 2019. Recently, a close relative of this virus, named medusavirus stheno T3, was isolated in Japan. Here, we describe their morphological, genomic, and gene content similarities and also propose to create a new family, "Mamonoviridae", a new genus, "Medusavirus", and two species, "Medusavirus medusae" and "Medusavirus sthenus", to classify these two viruses within the phylum Nucleocytoviricota.
棘阿米巴castellanii 微噬菌体 J1 是一种巨型病毒,于 2019 年从日本的一处温泉中分离得到。最近,在日本分离到了该病毒的近亲,命名为棘阿米巴微噬菌体 stheno T3。在这里,我们描述了它们在形态、基因组和基因含量上的相似性,并建议创建一个新的科“Mamonoviridae”、一个新的属“Medusavirus”和两个种“Medusavirus medusae”和“Medusavirus sthenus”,以将这两种病毒归类在核质病毒门中。