Mononegavirales is an order of negative-strand RNA viruses which have nonsegmented genomes. Some members that cause human disease in this order include Ebola virus, human respiratory syncytial virus, measles virus, mumps virus, Nipah virus, and rabies virus. Important pathogens of nonhuman animals and plants are also in the group. The order includes eleven virus families: Artoviridae, Bornaviridae, Filoviridae, Lispiviridae, Mymonaviridae, Nyamiviridae, Paramyxoviridae, Pneumoviridae, Rhabdoviridae, Sunviridae, and Xinmoviridae. and amended in 1995, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2011, 2016, 2017, and 2018. The name Mononegavirales is derived from the Ancient Greek adjective μóνος monos (alluding to the monopartite and single-stranded genomes of most mononegaviruses), the Latin verb negare (alluding to the negative polarity of these genomes), and the taxonomic suffix -virales (denoting a viral order).
Order inclusion criteria
thumb|The genome organization and RNA synthesis of order Mononegavirales
A virus is a member of the order Mononegavirales if Filovirus gene "fossils" have been detected in the genomes of bats, rodents, shrews, tenrecs, and marsupials. A Midway virus "fossil" was found in the genome of zebrafish.
Taxonomy
The order contains the following eleven families:
- Artoviridae
- Bornaviridae
- Filoviridae
- Lispiviridae
- Mymonaviridae
- Nyamiviridae
- Paramyxoviridae
- Pneumoviridae
- Rhabdoviridae
- Sunviridae
- Xinmoviridae
Notes
References
External links
- International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)