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Location: Subtropical Plant Pathology Research

Title: Promotion of order Bunyavirales to class Bunyaviricetes to accommodate a rapidly increasing number of related polyploviricotine viruses

Author
item KUHN, JENS - National Institutes Of Health (NIH)
item BROWN, KATHERINE - University Of Cambridge
item Adkins, Scott
item DE LA TORRE, JUAN CARLOS - Scripps Institute
item DIGIARO, MICHELE - Mediterranean Agronomic Institute Of Bari
item ERGUNAY, KORAY - Hacettepe University, Turkey
item FIRTH, ANDREW - University Of Cambridge
item HUGHES, HOLLY - Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC) - United States
item JUNGLEN, SANDRA - Humboldt University
item LAMBERT, AMY - Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC) - United States
item MAES, PIET - Ku Leuven
item MARKLEWITZ, MARCO - Find
item PALACIOS, GUSTAVO - The Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai
item SASAYA, TAKAHIDE - National Agriculture And Food Research Organization (NARO), Agricultrual Research Center
item SHI, MANG - Sun Yat-Sen University
item ZHANG, YONG-ZHEN - Fudan University
item WOLF, YURI - National Institutes Of Health (NIH)
item TURINA, MASSIMO - National Research Council - Italy

Submitted to: Journal of Virology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/1/2024
Publication Date: 9/20/2024
Citation: Kuhn, J.H., Brown, K.A., Adkins, S.T., De La Torre, J., Digiaro, M., Ergunay, K., Firth, A.E., Hughes, H.R., Junglen, S., Lambert, A.J., Maes, P., Marklewitz, M., Palacios, G., Sasaya, T., Shi, M., Zhang, Y., Wolf, Y.I., Turina, M. Promotion of order Bunyavirales to class Bunyaviricetes to accommodate a rapidly increasing number of related polyploviricotine viruses. Journal of Virology. 98:e01069-24. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01069-24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01069-24

Interpretive Summary: Continued and accelerated discoveries of viruses in the order Bunyavirales necessitate promotion of this order to the class Bunyaviricetes. This change requires additional sequence analysis and explanation of the changing taxonomy to the virology community. A timely update of these taxonomic changes is presented for research and regulatory virologists.

Technical Abstract: Sequence analysis of ever-increasing viruses in the order Bunyavirales indicates that an order will not suffice to depict the evolutionary relationships of these viruses. In April 2024, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) ratification vote on the newly proposed taxa, the order Bunyavirales was promoted to the class Bunyaviricetes. This new class currently includes two major orders: Elliovirales (Cruliviridae, Fimoviridae, Hantaviridae, Peribunyaviridae, Phasmaviridae, Tospoviridae, and Tulasviridae) and Hareavirales (Arenaviridae, Discoviridae, Konkoviridae, Leishbuviridae, Mypoviridae, Nairoviridae, Phenuiviridae, and Wupedeviridae). This article presents the updated taxonomy of Bunyaviricetes as currently accepted by the ICTV.