Core gene of iridovirus

Core genes are the genes shared by a class of viruses, which can represent the characteristics of this class of viruses and can be used for analysis such as evolutionary tree construction. The core genes of the different taxonomic levels of iridovirus are listed here.

Core gene by viral taxonomic level

The BLAST+ was employed to compared the proteins in the non-redundant iridovirus protein database with each iridovirus genome. For Iridoviridae, Alphairidovirinae, and Betairidovirinae, the non-redundant proteins covering more than 75% of the virus isolates were identified as the core genes. And for Megalocytivirus and Ranavirus, the non-redundant proteins covering 100% of the virus isolates were identified as the core genes.

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