Manticavirus is a genus of viruses in the subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, in the family Herpesviridae, in the order Herpesvirales. This genus was the only genus to consist entirely of marsupial-hosted species as of the time of naming, hence the name component Mantica (Latin: knapsack), in reference to the marsupial pouch.[1]

Manticavirus
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(unranked): Virus
Realm: Duplodnaviria
Kingdom: Heunggongvirae
Phylum: Peploviricota
Class: Herviviricetes
Order: Herpesvirales
Family: Orthoherpesviridae
Subfamily: Gammaherpesvirinae
Genus: Manticavirus
Species

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Species

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The genus includes the following species:[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Taxonomy". talk.ictvonline.org. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  2. ^ Vaz, Paola K.; Hartley, Carol A.; Lee, Sang-Yong; Sansom, Fiona M.; Adams, Timothy E.; Stalder, Kathryn; Pearce, Lesley; Lovrecz, George; Browning, Glenn F.; Müller, Christa E.; Devlin, Joanne M. (2019). "Koala and Wombat Gammaherpesviruses Encode the First Known Viral NTPDase Homologs and Are Phylogenetically Divergent from All Known Gammaherpesviruses". Journal of Virology. 93 (6): e01404–18. doi:10.1128/JVI.01404-18. PMC 6401436. PMID 30567986.