Bamfordvirae

Bamfordvirae
Virus classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Varidnaviria
Kingdom: Bamfordvirae
Subtaxa

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Bamfordvirae is a kingdom of viruses. This kingdom is recognized for its use of double jelly roll major capsid proteins. It was formerly known as the PRD1-adenovirus lineage. The kingdom is named after Dennis H. Bamford who first promoted the evolutionary unity of all viruses encoding double jelly-roll major capsid proteins.

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