Resources: Paramyxoviridae

Sequence alignments and tree files:

Figure 3. Paramyxoviridae:

Tree file (newick format)

Alignment file (FASTA format)

Authors: Paramyxoviridae

Bert K. Rima*
Centre for Experimental Medicine
School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast, BT9 7BL
Northern Ireland
UK
E-mail: [email protected]

Subfamily: Avulavirinae

Genus: Paraavulavirus

Distinguishing features

Members of all species of the genus Paraavulavirus have hemagglutinin and neuraminidase activities. They share greater sequence relatedness within the genus than with members of other genera.

Virion

See discussion under family description. 

Subfamily: Avulavirinae

Genus: Metaavulavirus

Distinguishing features

Members of all species of the genus Metaavulavirus share greater sequence relatedness within the genus than with members of other genera.

Virion

See discussion under family description. 

Genome organization and replication

See discussion under family description. 

Subfamily: Avulavirinae

Genus: Orthoavulavirus

Distinguishing features

Members of all species of the genus Orthoavulavirus share greater sequence relatedness within the genus than with members of other genera.  

Virion

See discussion under family description.  

Family: Paramyxoviridae

Subfamily: Avulavirinae

Distinguishing features

The subfamily is defined on the basis of phylogenetic relationships of complete large (L) protein amino acid sequences (Rima et al., 2018).  

Subfamily: Rubulavirinae

Genus: Pararubulavirus

Subfamily: Rubulavirinae

Genus: Orthorubulavirus

Family: Paramyxoviridae

Subfamily: Rubulavirinae

Distinguishing features

The subfamily is defined on the basis of phylogenetic relationships of complete large (L) protein amino acid sequences (Rima et al., 2018).

Subfamily: Metaparamyxovirinae

Genus: Synodonvirus

Distinguishing features

The sequence of a virus in this genus has been reported from a metagenomic study in triplecross lizardfish.

Virion

Unknown.