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Taxonomy of the Order Mononegavirales: Update 2016 Arch Virol (2016) 161:2351–2360 DOI 10.1007/s00705-016-2880-1 VIROLOGY DIVISION NEWS Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2016 1 2 3 4 5 Claudio L. Afonso • Gaya K. Amarasinghe • Krisztia´nBa´nyai • Yı¯mı´ng Ba`o • Christopher F. Basler • 6 7,8 9 10 11 Sina Bavari • Nicola´s Bejerman • Kim R. Blasdell • Franc¸ois-Xavier Briand • Thomas Briese • 12 13 14 15 16 Alexander Bukreyev • Charles H. Calisher • Kartik Chandran • Jia¯se¯n Che´ng • Anna N. Clawson • 17 18 19 20 21 Peter L. Collins • Ralf G. Dietzgen • Olga Dolnik • Leslie L. Domier • Ralf Du¨rrwald • 6 22 23 3 24 John M. Dye • Andrew J. Easton • Hideki Ebihara • Szilvia L. Farkas • Juliana Freitas-Astu´a • 25 26 15 27 28 Pierre Formenty • Ron A. M. Fouchier • Ya`npı´ng Fu` • Elodie Ghedin • Michael M. Goodin • 29 30 31 15 32 Roger Hewson • Masayuki Horie • Timothy H. Hyndman • Da`oho´ng Jia¯ng • Elliot W. Kitajima • 33 34 35 36,37 7 Gary P. Kobinger • Hideki Kondo • Gael Kurath • Robert A. Lamb • Sergio Lenardon • 38 40 41 15 42 3 Eric M. Leroy • Ci-Xiu Li • Xian-Dan Lin • Lı`jia¯ng Liu´ • Ben Longdon • Szilvia Marton • 19 43 44 45,46 47 Andrea Maisner • Elke Mu¨hlberger • Sergey V. Netesov • Norbert Nowotny • Jean L. Patterson • 48 49 50 51 52 Susan L. Payne • Janusz T. Paweska • Rick E. Randall • Bertus K. Rima • Paul Rota • 53 53 39 54 55 Dennis Rubbenstroth • Martin Schwemmle • Mang Shi • Sophie J. Smither • Mark D. Stenglein • 56 57 58 12 59 David M. Stone • Ayato Takada • Calogero Terregino • Robert B. Tesh • Jun-Hua Tian • 60 61,62 63 64,65 66 Keizo Tomonaga • Noe¨l Tordo • Jonathan S. Towner • Nikos Vasilakis • Martin Verbeek • 67 68 22 9 69 Viktor E. Volchkov • Victoria Wahl-Jensen • John A. Walsh • Peter J. Walker • David Wang • 70,71 72 73 15 74 Lin-Fa Wang • Thierry Wetzel • Anna E. Whitfield • Jiaˇta¯o Xie` • Kwok-Yung Yuen • 39 16 Yong-Zhen Zhang • Jens H. Kuhn Received: 19 April 2016 / Accepted: 27 April 2016 / Published online: 23 May 2016 Ó Springer-Verlag Wien (Outside the USA) 2016 & Jens H. Kuhn 10 Avian and Rabbit Virology Immunology and Parasitology [email protected] Unit, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, Ploufragan, France 1 Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Agricultural 11 Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Athens, Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA GA, USA 12 Departments of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology, 2 Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington Galveston National Laboratory, The University of Texas University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA 3 Institute for Veterinary Medical Research, Centre for 13 Arthropod-Borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA 4 Information Engineering Branch, National Center for 14 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 15 State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The 5 Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Institute for Biomedical Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hu´beˇi Province, Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA College of Plant Science and Technology, Hua´zho¯ng 6 United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Agricultural University, Wuhan, China Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, USA 16 Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), 7 Instituto de Patologı´a Vegetal, Centro de Investigaciones Division of Clinical Research (DCR), National Institute of Agropecuarias, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologı´a Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes Agropecuaria, Co´rdoba, Argentina of Health (NIH), B-8200 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA 8 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientı´ficas y Te´cnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina 17 Respiratory Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious 9 CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Australian Animal Health Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Laboratory, Geelong, VIC, Australia 123 2352 C. L. Afonso et al. Abstract In 2016, the order Mononegavirales was emen- viruses were initially assigned to three mononegaviral ded through the addition of two new families (Mymon- families: Filoviridae, Paramyxoviridae, and Rhabdoviridae aviridae and Sunviridae), the elevation of the [20, 21]. In subsequent years, these families continued to paramyxoviral subfamily Pneumovirinae to family status grow through the inclusion of numerous novel species and (Pneumoviridae), the addition of five free-floating genera genera, and the order was therefore emended in 1995 [4], (Anphevirus, Arlivirus, Chengtivirus, Crustavirus, and 1997 [23], 2000 [24], 2005 [25], and 2011 [8]. The families Wastrivirus), and several other changes at the genus and Bornaviridae and Nyamiviridae joined the other three species levels. This article presents the updated taxonomy mononegaviral families in 1996 [22] and 2014 [1, 11], of the order Mononegavirales as now accepted by the respectively. In 2015, the Study Groups of the International International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) responsible for the taxonomy of the order and its five families embarked on a joint effort to assign unclassified monone- Introduction gaviruses to existing or novel taxa and to streamline order nomenclature. Here we present a brief overview of the first The viral order Mononegavirales was established in 1991 round of these efforts, which by now is accepted by the to accommodate related viruses with nonsegmented, linear, ICTV Executive Committee and, thereby, is official single-stranded negative-sense RNA genomes. These taxonomy. 18 Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, 30 Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Transboundary Animal The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia Diseases Research Center, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan 19 Institute of Virology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany 31 School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, 20 Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Murdoch, WA, Australia Champaign, IL, USA 32 Nu´cleo de Apoio a` Pesquisa em Microscopia Eletroˆnica 21 IDT Biologika, Dessau-Rosslau, Germany Aplicada a Agricultura, Escola Superior de Agricultura ‘‘Luiz 22 de Queiroz’’, Universidade de Sa˜o Paulo, Piracicaba, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, Sa˜o Paulo, Brazil UK 33 23 Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Rocky Mountain Laboratories Integrated Research Facility, Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, MB, Canada National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT, USA 34 24 Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama Embrapa Cassava and Fruits, Cruz das Almas, Bahia, Brazil University, Kurashiki, Japan 25 World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 35 US Geological Survey Western Fisheries Research Center, 26 Department of Viroscience, Postgraduate School Molecular Seattle, WA, USA Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, 36 Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern The Netherlands University, Evanston, IL, USA 27 Department of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems 37 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Northwestern University, Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA Evanston, IL, USA 28 Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 38 Centre International de Recherches Me´dicales de Franceville, USA Institut de Recherche pour le De´veloppement, Franceville, 29 Public Health England, Porton Down, Wiltshire, Salisbury, Gabon UK 123 Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2016 2353 Taxonomic changes at the order level Mymonaviridae (accommodating SsNSRV-1), Sunviridae (SunCV), Anphevirus (XcMV), Arlivirus (LsSV-2), Cheng- In recent years, several mononegaviruses have been descri- tivirus (TcTV-6), Crustavirus (WzCV-1), and Wastrivirus bed that are only distantly related to the members of the (SxWSV-4). In addition, the paramyxoviral subfamily families Bornaviridae, Filoviridae, Nyamiviridae, Pneumovirinae was elevated to family status (Pneumoviri- Paramyxoviridae,andRhabdoviridae. These viruses include dae) because the members of this taxon are as closely related Sclerotinia sclerotiorum negative-stranded RNA virus 1 to filoviruses as to the members of the paramyxoviral sub- (SsNSRV-1) found in an ascomycete in China [16]; Sun- family Paramxyovirinae (now dissolved) (Table 1). shine Coast virus (SunCV; previously called Sunshine virus) isolated from Australian carpet pythons [10]; and Lı´shı´ spider virus 2 (LsSV-2), Sa¯nxia´ water strider virus 4 Taxonomic changes at the family level (SxWSV-4), Taˇche´ng tick virus 6 (TcTV-6), We¯nzho¯u crab virus 1 (WzCV-1), and Xı¯nche´ng mosquito virus (XcMV) The monogeneric family Bornaviridae was reorganized in detected in Chinese arthropods [15]. To accommodate these 2015 by establishing five distinct species in the genus viruses in the order and to appropriately reflect their phy- Bornavirus [2, 12] following a non-Latinized binomial logenetic relationships to other mononegaviral taxa, two species name format
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