Herpesviridae

Various viruses from the Herpesviridae family seen using an electron micrograph.

Taxonavigation

Regnum: Virus
Phylum: not divided
Classis: not divided
Group I: dsDNA
Ordo: Herpesvirales
Familia: Herpesviridae
Subfamiliae: Alphaherpesvirinae - Betaherpesvirinae - Gammaherpesvirinae

Unassigned species: Iguanid herpesvirus 2

Name

Herpesviridae

References

• Davison, A.J. 2002: Evolution of the herpesviruses. Vet. Microbial., 86: 69-88.
• McGeoch, D.J., Dolan, A. & Ralph, A.C. 2000: Toward a comprehensive phylogeny for mammalian and avian herpesviruses. J. Virol., 74: 10401-10406.
• Steven, A.C. & Spear, P.G. 1997: Herpesvirus capsid assembly and envelopment. In: Structural Biology of Viruses (W. Chiu, R.M. Burnett and R. Garcea, eds), pp. 312-351. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford.

Links

• Taxonomy history at ICTV

Vernacular names

English: Herpes-viruses

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