Citation: Birnaviridae

A summary of this ICTV Report chapter has been published as an ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile article in the Journal of General Virology, and should be cited when referencing this online chapter as follows:

References: Birnaviridae

Birghan, C., Mundt, E. & Gorbalenya, A. E. (2000).  A non-canonical lon proteinase lacking the ATPase domain employs the ser-Lys catalytic dyad to exercise broad control over the life cycle of a double-stranded RNA virus. EMBO J 19, 114-123. [PubMed] 

Resources: Birnaviridae

Sequence alignments and tree files:

Tree file (newick format)

Alignment file (FASTA format)

Authors: Birnaviridae

Bernard Delmas*
Birnaviridae and Picobirnaviridae Study Group Chair
VIM, INRA
Université Paris-Saclay
78350 Jouy-en-Josas
France
E-mail: bernard.delmas@inra.fr

Family: Birnaviridae

Genus: Entomobirnavirus

Distinguishing features

Viruses in this genus infect only insects (see (Webster et al., 2016) and references therein). 

Virion

See discussion under family description. 

Family: Birnaviridae

Genus: Blosnavirus

Distinguishing features

Viruses in the genus infect only fish. 

Virion

See discussion under family description. 

Genome organization and replication

See discussion under family description. 

Family: Birnaviridae

Genus: Avibirnavirus

Distinguishing features

Viruses in the genus infect only birds. 

Virion

See discussion under family description. 

Genome organization and replication

See discussion under family description. 

Family: Birnaviridae

Genus: Aquabirnavirus

Distinguishing features

Viruses in the genus infect fish, possibly molluscs. 

Virion

See discussion under family description. 

Genome organization and replication

See discussion under family description. 

Family: Birnaviridae

Bernard Delmas, Houssam Attoui, Souvik Ghosh​, Yashpal S. Malik, Egbert Mundt and Vikram N. Vakharia

Citation: Picobirnaviridae

A summary of this ICTV Report chapter has been published as an ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile article in the Journal of General Virology, and should be cited when referencing this online chapter as follows: