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An archaeal virus is a virus that infects and replicates in archaea, a domain of unicellular, prokaryotic organisms.Archaeal viruses, like their hosts, are found worldwide, including in extreme environments inhospitable to most life such as acidic hot springs, highly saline bodies of water, and at the bottom of the ocean.
Bicaudaviridae is a family of hyperthermophilic archaeal viruses.Members of the genus Acidianus serve as natural hosts. There is only one genus, Bicaudavirus, and one species, Acidianus two-tailed virus, in this family.
Archaeal-specific viruses target only archaean species and currently include 12 families. Numerous unique, previously unidentified viral structures have been observed in this group, including: bottle-shaped, spindle-shaped, coil-shaped, and droplet-shaped viruses. [ 173 ]
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Bottigliavirus is the only genus in the family Ampullaviridae and contains 3 species. [3] [4] Ampullaviridae infect archaea of the genus Acidianus. [5]The name of the family and genus is derived from the Latin word for bottle, ampulla, due to the virions having the shape of a bottle.
Clavaviridae is a family of double-stranded viruses that infect archaea.This family was first described by the team led by D. Prangishvili in 2010. [1] There is one genus in this family (Clavavirus).
Two other single-stranded DNA virus groups within the Monodnaviria, the Microviridae and the Tubulavirales, likely infected the last bacterial common ancestor. The last archaeal common ancestor was probably host to spindle-shaped viruses.
Ligamenvirales is an order of linear viruses that infect archaea of the phylum Thermoproteota (formerly Crenarchaeota) and have double-stranded DNA genomes. [1] The order was proposed by David Prangishvili and Mart Krupovic in 2012 and subsequently created by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).