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family: Metaviridae (current release)

Etymology: from the late Latin metathesis, meaning “transposition”, referring to the family of retrotransposons; the suffix -viridae for family taxa
Created in Proposal: Ratification_1998.pdf PubMed ID: 7760826
Report Chapter: Metaviridae

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