Alphasphaerolipovirus

Alphasphaerolipovirus
Virus classification
(unranked):	Virus
Realm :	Varidnaviria
Kingdom:	Helvetiavirae
Phylum:	Dividoviricota
Class:	Laserviricetes
Order:	Halopanivirales
Family:	Sphaerolipoviridae
Genus:	Alphasphaerolipovirus
Species
	Haloarcula hispanica icosahedral virus 2 ; Haloarcula hispanica virus PH1 ; Haloarcula hispanica virus SH1 ; Haloarcula virus HCIV1 ;

Alphasphaerolipovirus is a genus of double stranded DNA viruses that infect haloarchaea. ^[1] The genus contains four species.

Taxonomy [ edit ]

The genus contains the following species: ^[2]

The name Halosphaerovirus was also proposed for this genus. ^[3]

^ Pawlowski A, Rissanen I, Bamford JK, Krupovic M, Jalasvuori M (2014). "Gammasphaerolipovirus, a newly proposed bacteriophage genus, unifies viruses of halophilic archaea and thermophilic bacteria within the novel family Sphaerolipoviridae" (PDF) . Arch Virol . 159 (6): 1541?1554. doi : 10.1007/s00705-013-1970-6 . PMID 24395078 .
^ "Virus Taxonomy: 2020 Release" . International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). March 2021 . Retrieved 22 May 2021 .
^ Porter K, Tang SL, Chen CP, Chiang PW, Hong MJ, Dyall-Smith M (2013) PH1: An archaeovirus of Haloarcula hispanica related to SH1 and HHIV-2. Archaea 2013: 456318