Straboviridae

{{Short description|Family of viruses}}

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Straboviridae is a family of viruses in the order Pantevenvirales, class Caudoviricetes.{{cite journal |author1=Turner D |author2=Shkoporov AN |author3=Lood C |author4=Millard AD |author5=Dutilh BE |author6=Alfenas-Zerbini P |author7=van Zyl LJ |author8=Aziz RK |author9=Oksanen HM |author10=Poranen MM |author11=Kropinski AM |author12=Barylski J |author13=Brister JR |author14=Chanisvili N |author15=Edwards RA |author16=Enault F |author17=Gillis A |author18=Knezevic P |author19=Krupovic M |author20=Kurtböke I |author21=Kushkina A |author22=Lavigne R |author23=Lehman S |author24=Lobocka M |author25=Moraru C |author26=Moreno Switt A |author27=Morozova V |author28=Nakavuma J |author29=Reyes Muñoz A |author30=Rūmnieks J |author31=Sarkar BL |author32=Sullivan MB |author33=Uchiyama J |author34=Wittmann J |author35=Yigang T |author36=Adriaenssens EM |title=Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee |journal=Archives of Virology |volume=168 |issue=2 |pages=74 |date=January 2023 |pmid=36683075 |pmc=9868039 |doi=10.1007/s00705-022-05694-2}} The viruses in this family were formerly place in the morphology-based family Myoviridae, which was found to be paraphyletic in genome studies and abolished in the 2021 International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) classification, although the term myovirus is still used to refer to the morphology of viruses in this new family.{{cite web|title=Virus Taxonomy: 2024 Release|url=https://ictv.global/taxonomy|publisher=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses|access-date=6 March 2025}} Bacteria and archaea serve as natural hosts. In average, replication of family members is supported by 34% isolates of primary host species.{{cite journal |author1=Pchelin IM |author2=Smolensky AV |author3=Azarov DV |author4=Goncharov AE |title=Lytic spectra of tailed bacteriophages: a systematic review and meta-analysis |journal=Viruses |volume=16 |pages=1879 |year=2024 |issue=12 |doi=10.3390/v16121879|doi-access=free |pmc=11680127 }} There were 209 species in this family, assigned to 36 genera and three subfamilies.