ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Yadokariviridae 2023
Yukiyo Sato, Subha Das, Leonardo Velasco, Massimo Turina, Hideki Osaki, Ioly Kotta‐Loizou, R. H. A. Coutts, Hideki Kondō, Sead Sabanadzovic, Nobuhiro Suzuki
Abstract
The family Yadokariviridae , with the genera Alphayadokarivirus and Betayadokarivirus , includes capsidless non-segmented positive-sense (+) RNA viruses that hijack capsids from phylogenetically distant double-stranded RNA viruses. Yadokarivirids likely replicate inside the hijacked heterocapsids using their own RNA-directed RNA polymerase, mimicking dsRNA viruses despite their phylogenetic placement in a (+) RNA virus lineage. Yadokarivirids can have negative or positive impacts on their host fungi, through interactions with the capsid donor dsRNA viruses. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) report on the family Yadokariviridae , which is available at ictv.global/report/yadokariviridae .