Species List: Geminiviridae

Virus names, the choice of exemplar isolates, and virus abbreviations, are not official ICTV designations
 Exemplar isolate of the species

Species List: Finnlakeviridae

Virus names, the choice of exemplar isolates, and virus abbreviations, are not official ICTV designations
 Exemplar isolate of the species

Species List: Circoviridae

Virus names, the choice of exemplar isolates, and virus abbreviations, are not official ICTV designations
 Exemplar isolate of the species

Resources: Sunviridae

Figure 2.Sunviridae

Alignment (FASTA format) - this is a pseudo-alignment of 1122 negarnaviricot sequences in which residues that do not have a matching position in the family-level consensus have been removed from the sequences

Species List: Sunviridae

Virus names, the choice of exemplar isolates, and virus abbreviations, are not official ICTV designations
 Exemplar isolate of the species

References: Sunviridae

Hyndman, T. H. (2012). Paramyxoviruses in Australian snakes. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia.

Hyndman, T. H. & Johnson, R. S. (2015). Evidence for the vertical transmission of Sunshine virus. Vet Microbiol 175, 179-84. [PubMed]

Citation: Sunviridae

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:

Kuhn, J. H., Kurath, G., Wolf, Y. I., & Hyndman, T. H. (2023). ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Sunviridae 2023", Journal of General Virology 104, 001896

Authors: Sunviridae

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  

Gael Kurath  

Family: Sunviridae

Genus: Sunshinevirus

Distinguishing features

There is only one genus in the family and so the distinguishing features correspond to the family description.

Species demarcation criteria

Not defined; the genus includes only one species.

Family: Sunviridae

Jens H. Kuhn, Gael Kurath, Yuri I. Wolf, and Timothy H. Hyndman

The citation for this ICTV Report chapter is the summary published as: 

Kuhn, J. H., Kurath, G., Wolf, Y. I., & Hyndman, T. H. (2023). ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Sunviridae 2023", Journal of General Virology 104, 001896