Genus: Megabirnavirus
Family: Megabirnaviridae
Genus: Megabirnavirus
Distinguishing features
Since only one genus is currently recognized, the genus description corresponds to the family description.
Since only one genus is currently recognized, the genus description corresponds to the family description.
Yukiyo Sato, Naoyuki Miyazaki, Satoko Kanematsu, Jiatao Xie, Said A. Ghabrial, Bradley I. Hillman and Nobuhiro Suzuki
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:
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]
Bernard Delmas*
Birnaviridae and Picobirnaviridae Study Group Chair
VIM, INRA
Université Paris-Saclay
78350 Jouy-en-Josas
France
E-mail: bernard.delmas@inra.fr
Viruses in this genus infect only insects (see (Webster et al., 2016) and references therein).
See discussion under family description.
Viruses in the genus infect only fish.
See discussion under family description.
See discussion under family description.
Viruses in the genus infect only birds.
See discussion under family description.
See discussion under family description.
Viruses in the genus infect fish, possibly molluscs.
See discussion under family description.
See discussion under family description.