References: Megabirnaviridae

Resources: Megabirnaviridae

Sequence alignments and tree files:

Figure 4. Megabirnaviridae:

Alignment file (FASTA format)

Tree file (newick format)

Authors: Megabirnaviridae

Yukiyo Sato
Institute of Plant Science and Resources
Okayama University, Chuo 2-20-1
Kurashiki, 710-0046, Japan
E-mail: [email protected]

Miyazaki Naoyuki
Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics
Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance
University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
E-mail: [email protected]

Family: Megabirnaviridae

Genus: Megabirnavirus

Distinguishing features

Since only one genus is currently recognized, the genus description corresponds to the family description.  

Family: Megabirnaviridae

Yukiyo Sato, Naoyuki Miyazaki, Satoko Kanematsu, Jiatao Xie, Said A. Ghabrial, Bradley I. Hillman and Nobuhiro Suzuki

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: [email protected]

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.