Molecular biology
VIRION
Non enveloped, large (50 nm diameter) icosahedral particles composed of 420 subunits (T=7). The virion shell is multi-layered.
GENOME
Circular double stranded DNA of about 8000 base pairs with discontinuities in both strands: one in the transcribed strand and one to three in the non-transcribed strand. Encode for 8 proteins.
GENE EXPRESSION
REPLICATION
CYTOPLASMIC/NUCLEAR