Betaretrovirus
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A betaretrovirus is a genus of the retroviridae family. It has type B or type C morphology. The type B is common for a few exogenous, vertically transmitted and endogenous viruses of mice, some primate and sheep viruses are the type D.
An example is the mouse mammary tumour virus.
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