Promotion of Order to Class to Accommodate a Rapidly Increasing Number of Related Polyploviricotine Viruses

Overview

Journal J Virol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Date 2024 Sep 20

PMID 39303014

Authors

Jens H Kuhn

Katherine Brown

Scott Adkins

Juan Carlos de la Torre

Michele Digiaro

Koray Ergunay

Andrew E Firth

Holly R Hughes

Sandra Junglen

Amy J Lambert

Piet Maes

Marco Marklewitz

Gustavo Palacios

Takahide Sasaya

Mang Shi

Yong-Zhen Zhang

Yuri I Wolf

Massimo Turina

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Abstract

Prior to 2017, the family included five genera of arthropod and rodent viruses with tri-segmented negative-sense RNA genomes related to the Bunyamwera virus. In 2017, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) promoted the family to order and subsequently greatly expanded its composition by adding multiple families for non-segmented to polysegmented viruses of animals, fungi, plants, and protists. The continued and accelerated discovery of bunyavirals highlighted that an order would not suffice to depict the evolutionary relationships of these viruses. Thus, in April 2024, the order was promoted to class . This class currently includes two major orders, (, , , , , , and ) and (, , , , , , , and ), for hundreds of viruses, many of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals, plants, and fungi.

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