Dpvweb.net Website Review

This site provides a central source of information about viruses, viroids and satellites of plants, fungi and protozoa, with some additional data on an*mal viruses and phages with RNA or ssDNA genomes. The regular updating of information has been as*isted by. sponsorship from the ZHEJIANG ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, HANGZHOU, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. An introductory overview of plant viruses, their importance, transmission and clas*ification. in paper form by the As*ociation of Applied Biologists (AAB) between 1970 and 1989, while additional descriptions have been added to a CD-ROM (also published by the AAB) since 1998. These can now be accessed from the indexes in the DPV menu or from the Taxonomy pages. New descriptions are being commissioned and will be added as they become available. A brief description is provided for each genus and family. This includes all viruses, viroids and satellites infecting plants, fungi and protozoa and additionally all other RNA and ssDNA viruses infecting an*mals. The genome organisation is described wherever this is known and there are links to a genome map and a representative electron micrograph (for plant viruses only). Lists of species with their acronyms and synonyms are provided for each genus. There are also links to the plant virus Descriptions (DPVs) and to the We provide the accession numbers used by EMBL and Genbank databases for all the sequences of viruses, satellites and viroids infecting plants, fungi and protozoa. These have been checked to ensure that, as far as possible, they are allocated here to their correct name and the We have constructed a sequence feature database (DPVweb) that contains all sequences of viruses, viroids and satellites of plants, fungi and protozoa, that are complete or which encode one or more gene. The database also includes verified annotations for the open reading frames and other major features. To as*ist comparisons with related viruses, there are also representative sequences for every completely