Alpharetrovirus

An alpharetrovirus is a genus of the retroviridae family. It has type C morphology. Members can cause sarcomas, other tumors, and anaemia of wild and domestic birds and also affect rats.

Species include the Rous sarcoma virus, avian leucosis virus and avian myeloblastosis virus.

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RNA viruses: retroviruses

Lentivirus (HIV, SIV, FIV) - Spumavirus (SFV, HFV)

Alpharetrovirus (Avian leucosis virus, Rous sarcoma virus) - Betaretrovirus (Mouse mammary tumour virus) - Gammaretrovirus (Murine leukemia virus, Abelson murine leukemia virus, Feline leukemia virus) - Deltaretrovirus (Human T-lymphotropic virus) - Epsilonretrovirus

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