family: Ascoviridae (current release)

Etymology: phonetically from the Ancient Greek ἀσκός (askós), meaning "tube" or “sac”, referring to the virion-containing vesicles produced by cleavage of host cells, which are characteristic for viruses of this family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa
Created in Proposal: Ratification_1998.pdf PubMed ID: 19216438
Report Chapter: Ascoviridae