Petuvirus [SEP] parent taxon
Petuvirus
Petuvirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Caulimoviridae order Ortervirales. Plants serve as natural hosts. There is currently only one species in this genus: the type species Petunia vein clearing virus. Diseases associated with this genus include: plants: chlorotic vein clearing, leaf malformation.
Taxonomy.
Group: ssRNA-RT
"Petuviruses" (including other members of the "Caulimovirusus" such as "soymoviruses" and "Cavemoviruses") form isometric particles whereas members of "Badnaviruses" and "Tungroviruses
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of