Promotion of order <i>Bunyavirales</i> to class <i>Bunyaviricetes</i> to accommodate a rapidly increasing number of related polyploviricotine viruses
Prior to 2017, the family <i>Bunyaviridae</i> 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 <i>Bunyavirales</i> 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 <i>Bunyaviricetes</i>. This class currently includes two major orders, <i>Elliovirales</i> (<i>Cruliviridae</i>, <i>Fimoviridae</i>, <i>Hantaviridae</i>, <i>Peribunyaviridae</i>, <i>Phasmaviridae</i>, <i>Tospoviridae</i>, and <i>Tulasviridae</i>) and <i>Hareavirales</i> (<i>Arenaviridae</i>, <i>Discoviridae</i>, <i>Konkoviridae</i>, <i>Leishbuviridae</i>, <i>Mypoviridae</i>, <i>Nairoviridae</i>, <i>Phenuiviridae</i>, and <i>Wupedeviridae</i>), for hundreds of viruses, many of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals, plants, and fungi.
Authors
- Andrew E. Firth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7986-9520)
- Piet Maes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4571-5232)
- Jens H. Kuhn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7800-6045)
- Yuri I. Wolf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0247-8708)
- Takahide Sasaya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5020-9377)
- Katherine A. Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8400-6922)
- Sandra Junglen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3799-6011)
- Scott Adkins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0095-8414)
- Juan Carlos de la Torre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8171-8115)
- Koray Ergünay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5422-1982)
- Amy J. Lambert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7571-3529)
- Massimo Turina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9659-9470)
- Holly R. Hughes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1380-8263)
- Gustavo Palacios (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5062-1938)
- Marco Marklewitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1828-8770)
- M. Digiaro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3089-3606)
- Yongzhen Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7644-2011)
- Mǎng Shī (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6154-4437)
Institutions
- Smithsonian Institution (US)
- University of Jordan (JO)
- Scripps Research Institute (US)
- FIND (CH)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Agricultural Research Service (US)
- National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (JP)
- United States Department of Agriculture (US)
- National Museum of Natural History (US)
- Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
- Rega Institute for Medical Research (BE)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Fudan University (CN)
- Museum Conservation Institute (US)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IT)
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (US)
- Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari (IT)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (US)
- International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (IT)
- U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory (US)
- National Research Council (IT)
- Addenbrooke's Hospital (GB)
- Hacettepe University (TR)
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (US)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- KU Leuven (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Virology
- Published
- 2024-09-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01069-24
- Citations
- 51
- Primary Topic
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 19.84
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases