Deltaretrovirus
Encyclopedia
A deltaretrovirus is a genus
of the retroviridae family
. It consists of exogenous
horizontally-transmitted viruses found in several groups of mammal
s.
Examples are the bovine leukemia virus
and the Human T-lymphotropic virus
.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of the retroviridae family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
. It consists of exogenous
Exogenous
Exogenous refers to an action or object coming from outside a system. It is the opposite of endogenous, something generated from within the system....
horizontally-transmitted viruses found in several groups of mammal
Mammal
Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...
s.
Examples are the bovine leukemia virus
Bovine leukemia virus
Bovine leukemia virus is a bovine virus closely related to HTLV-I, a human tumour virus.BLV is a retrovirus which integrates a DNA intermediate as a provirus into the DNA of B-lymphocytes of blood and milk. It contains an oncogene coding for a protein called Tax. Nevertheless in its natural host...
and the Human T-lymphotropic virus
Human T-lymphotropic virus
Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 , also called the Adult T-cell lymphoma virus type 1, a virus that has been seriously implicated in several kinds of diseases including HTLV-I-associated myelopathy, Strongyloides stercoralis hyper-infection, and a virus cancer link for leukemia...
.