Genus: Chuvivirus
Family: Chuviridae
Genus: Chuvivirus
Jens H. Kuhn, Nolwenn M. Dheilly, Sandra Junglen, Sofia Paraskevopoulou (Σοφία Παρασκευοπούλου), Mang Shi (施莽) and Nicholas Di Paola
The citation for this ICTV Report chapter is the summary published as:
Virus names, the choice of exemplar isolates, and virus abbreviations, are not official ICTV designations
Exemplar isolate of the species
Chang, T., Hirai, J., Hunt, B. P. & Suttle, C. A. (2021). Arthropods and the evolution of RNA viruses. bioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2021.05.30.446314.
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:
Jens H. Kuhn
Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Fort Detrick
Frederick
Maryland
USA
Email: kuhnjens@mail.nih.gov
Nolwenn M. Dheilly
Pathogen Discovery Laboratory
Institut Pasteur
Université Paris Cité
75015 Paris
France
Ollusviruses are currently distinguished from viruses of the second genus in the family based on the basis that their L protein sequences are < 31% identical.
Classified ollusviruses have been associated with coleopteran, dipteran, hemipteran, hymenopteran, and siphonapteran insects as follows: