Notes on Genus: Apscaviroid

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Type member: Apple scar skin viroid

Contents

• Members of this Genus
• General Description
• Morphology
• Electron Micrograph
• Genome
• Genus Genomic Organization
• Genome Map
• Type Member Genomic Organization
• All Known Sequences
• Curated Sequences

General Description

This is one of five genera of viroids assigned to the family Pospiviroidae. Like all the other genera in this family, members have a central conserved region (CCR) and lack the ability to self-cleave through hammerhead structures. Classification is based on the sequence of the CCR. An arbitrary level of 90% sequence similarity currently separates variants from species.

Morphology

Like all viroids, they have no virions and encode no proteins.

Genome

One circular, single stranded molecule of RNA, 297-370 nucleotides long.

Genus Genomic Organization

The RNA is non-coding.

Type Member Genomic Organization

The genome consists of one circular, single stranded molecule of RNA, 329-330 nucleotides long, which is non-coding.