title: Genomoviridae: a new family of widespread single-stranded DNA viruses.
abstract: Here, we introduce a new family of eukaryote-infecting single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses that was created recently by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). The family, named Genomoviridae, contains a single genus, Gemycircularvirus, which currently has one recognized virus species, Sclerotinia gemycircularvirus 1. Sclerotinia sclerotiorum hypovirulence-associated DNA virus 1 (SsHADV-1) is currently the sole representative isolate of the family; however, a great number of SsHADV-1-like ssDNA virus genomes has been sequenced from various environmental, plant- and animal-associated samples, indicating that members of family Genomoviridae are widespread and abundant in the environment.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. krupovic@pasteur.fr.
authors.forename: Mart
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5486-0098
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krupovic
authors.affiliation: Plant Pathology Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40546, USA.
authors.forename: Said A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ghabrial
authors.affiliation: State Key Lab of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Daohong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences and Biomolecular Interaction Centre, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand. arvind.varsani@canterbury.ac.nz.|Structural Biology Research Unit, Division of Medical Biochemistry, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. arvind.varsani@canterbury.ac.nz.|Department of Plant Pathology and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. arvind.varsani@canterbury.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Arvind
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Varsani
mesh_terms: D004267:DNA Viruses / Q000235:genetics*; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D010942:Plant Viruses / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded