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International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

The database classifies viruses based primarily on their chemical characteristics, genomic type, nucleic acid replication, diseases, vectors, and geographical distribution, among other characteristics.


Flexiviridae

These have in turn been subsumed under the new order Tymovirales along with the old family Tymoviridae by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses based on molecular phylogenetic systematic analyses of proteins (RNA polymerase and viral coat).


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