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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Taxonomic Hierarchy > Viruses and Viroids > RNA viruses > ssRNA viruses > negative sense, single-stranded RNA viruses
Preferred Term:

negative sense, single-stranded RNA viruses

Definition:
A group of RNA viruses whose negative single strand of viral RNA (3' to 5') has base sequence complementary to the positive sense strand (5' to 3'). The negative viral RNA must be converted by RNA polymerase to positive-sense RNA before it can be translated into protein.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Core
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
ssRNA viruses
Narrower Concepts:
Related Concepts:
Entry Terms:
  • negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses
  • single-stranded RNA viruses, negative sense
  • (-)ssRNA viruses
  • negative sense single-stranded RNA viruses
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/4
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