''Finnlakeviridae'' is a family of bacterial viruses that is not assigned to any higher

taxonomic ranks In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system consists of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain. While ...

. The family contains a single genus, ''Finnlakevirus'', which contains a single species, ''Flavobacterium virus FLiP''. This virus was isolated in 2010, with its gram-negative host bacterium, from Lake Jyväsjärvi, a boreal freshwater habitat in Central Finland, and is the first described single-stranded DNA virus with an internal membrane. OSD

The genome is circular single-stranded DNA of about 9200

nucleotides Nucleotides are organic molecules consisting of a nucleoside and a phosphate. They serve as monomeric units of the nucleic acid polymers – deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA), both of which are essential biomolecules with ...

in length.

References

External links

ICTV Report: ''Finnlakeviridae''

PNAS Paper: ''Finnlakeviridae''
Virus families {{Virus-stub