Complete genome sequence of the first endornavirus from the ascocarp of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Tuber aestivum Vittad.

The genus Endornavirus was recently approved by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) [1, 10] to be separated from the family Partitiviridae, and endornaviruses have only been described in plants and fungi [4, 15]. They share common properties such as symptom-free infection of their host, occurrence in lowcopy number in host cells, lack of true virions [7], and an efficient vertical transmission in their hosts [16]....