“…Thus far, eighteen mycoviruses have been assigned as members of the family Alternaviridae [ 11 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 ]. Except for FaAV1, which is composed of two dsRNA segments [ 13 ], the remaining seventeen alternaviruses contain three or four dsRNA segments [ 11 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 ]. Among them, eleven alternaviruses, namely Aspergillus heteromorphus alternavirus 1 (AheAV1) [ 49 ], Cordyceps chanhua alternavirus 1 (CcAV1) [ 52 ], Dactylonectria torresensis alternavirus 1 (DtAV1) [ 53 ], FgAV1 [ 14 ], FiAV1 [ 15 ], FnAV1 [ 16 ], FpgAV1 [ 18 ], FpAV1 [ 17 ], Ilyonectria crassa alternavirus 1 (IcAV1) [ 51 ], Ilyonectria robusta alternavirus 1 (IrAV1) [ 53 ], and Suillus luteus alternavirus 1 (SluAV1) [ 55 ], contain three dsRNA segments, while six alternaviruses, including AaV1 [ 47 ], Aspergillus foetidus virus (AfV) [ 54 ], Aspergillus virus 341 (AsV341) [ …”