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  1. Taxonomic Hierarchy
  2. Viruses and Viroids
  3. RNA viruses
  4. ssRNA viruses
  5. negative sense, single-stranded RNA viruses

Preferred term

negative sense, single-stranded RNA viruses

Type

  • Organism

Definition

  • Information 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.

    Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff

    Type: Concept definition

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Synonyms

  • negative sense single-stranded RNA viruses
  • negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses
  • single-stranded RNA viruses, negative sense
  • (-)ssRNA viruses

Source

  • International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/4

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