Promotion of order <i>Bunyavirales</i> to class <i>Bunyaviricetes</i> to accommodate a rapidly increasing number of related polyploviricotine viruses

Kuhn J. H., Brown K., Adkins S., de la Torre J. C., Digiaro M., ERGÜNAY K., ...More

JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, vol.98, 2024 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Editorial Material
  • Volume: 98
  • Publication Date: 2024
  • Doi Number: 10.1128/jvi.01069-24
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Applied Science & Technology Source, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), BIOSIS, Biotechnology Research Abstracts, CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts Core, Food Science & Technology Abstracts, Veterinary Science Database
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Prior to 2017, the family Bunyaviridae 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 Bunyavirales 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 Bunyaviricetes. This class currently includes two major orders, Elliovirales (Cruliviridae, Fimoviridae, Hantaviridae, Peribunyaviridae, Phasmaviridae, Tospoviridae, and Tulasviridae) and Hareavirales (Arenaviridae, Discoviridae, Konkoviridae, Leishbuviridae, Mypoviridae, Nairoviridae, Phenuiviridae, and Wupedeviridae), for hundreds of viruses, many of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals, plants, and fungi.