Finnlakeviridae

{{Short description|Family of viruses}}

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| taxon = Finnlakeviridae

| subdivision_ranks = Subtaxa

| subdivision =

• Genus: Finnlakevirus
• Species: Finnlakevirus FLiP

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Finnlakeviridae is a family of bacterial viruses that is the sole representative of its own class, Ainoaviricetes (from "ainoa", the Finnish word for "single" + -viricetes). The family contains a single genus, Finnlakevirus, which contains a single species, Finnlakevirus FLiP.{{cite journal |last1=Mäntynen |first1=S |last2=Laanto |first2=E |last3=Sundberg |first3=LR |last4=Poranen |first4=MM |last5=Oksanen |first5=HM |last6=ICTV Report Consortium |title=ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Finnlakeviridae. |journal=The Journal of General Virology |date=September 2020 |volume=101 |issue=9 |pages=894–895 |doi=10.1099/jgv.0.001488 |pmid=32840474|pmc=7654751 |hdl=10138/320459 |hdl-access=free }}{{cite web |title=ICTV Report Finnlakeviridae |url=http://www.ictv.global/report/finnlakeviridae}}{{cite web|title=History of the taxon: Species: Finnlakevirus FLiP (2024 Release, MSL #40)|url=https://ictv.global/taxonomy/taxondetails?taxnode_id=202407848&taxon_name=Finnlakevirus%20FLiP|publisher=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses|access-date=23 March 2025}} This virus was isolated in 2010, with its gram-negative host Flavobacterium, from Lake Jyväsjärvi, a boreal freshwater habitat in Central Finland, and is the first described single-stranded DNA virus with an internal membrane.

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The genome is circular single-stranded DNA of about 9200 nucleotides in length.

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