Biology:Kitrinoviricota
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Short description: Phylum of viruses
| Kitrinoviricota | |
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Kitrinoviricota |
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Kitrinoviricota is a phylum of RNA viruses that includes all positive-strand RNA viruses that infect eukaryotes and are not members of the phylum Pisuviricota or Lenarviricota.[1] The name of the group derives from Greek κίτρινος (kítrinos), which means yellow (a reference to yellow fever virus), and -viricota, which is the suffix for a virus phylum.[2]
Classes
The following classes are recognized:
- Alsuviricetes
- Flasuviricetes
- Magsaviricetes
- Tolucaviricetes
References
- ↑ "Virus Taxonomy: 2019 Release". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. https://ictv.global/taxonomy.
- ↑ Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini M, Kuhn JH. "Proposal: Create a megataxonomic framework, filling all principal taxonomic ranks, for realm Riboviria" (in en). https://ictv.global/taxonomy/taxondetails?taxnode_id=201907209.
Wikidata ☰ Q92194673 entry
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