Nyamiviridae: Proposal for a new family in the order Mononegavirales

• Published in: Archives of virology Vol. 158; no. 10; pp. 2209 - 2226
• Main Authors: Kuhn, Jens H., Bekal, Sadia, Caì, Yíngyún, Clawson, Anna N., Domier, Leslie L., Herrel, Marieke, Jahrling, Peter B., Kondo, Hideki, Lambert, Kris N., Mihindukulasuriya, Kathie A., Nowotny, Norbert, Radoshitzky, Sheli R., Schneider, Urs, Staeheli, Peter, Suzuki, Nobuhiro, Tesh, Robert B., Wang, David, Wang, Lin-Fa, Dietzgen, Ralf G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01.10.2013; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animals; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Bird Diseases - virology; Birds; Filovirus; Genomes; Heterodera glycines; Infectious Diseases; Medical Microbiology; Medicine; Nematoda - virology; new family; Nyamanini nyavirus; Phylogeny; RNA; RNA polymerase; RNA Viruses - classification; RNA Viruses - genetics; seabirds; Taxonomy; Tissue Culture Techniques; Virology; Virology Division News; Virus Cultivation; Virus Replication; Viruses; St Louis Missouri; United States > US; Illinois; Soft Tick; Species Member; Grey Heron; Soybean Cyst Nematode; Cattle Egret

Nyamanini virus (NYMV) and Midway virus (MIDWV) are unclassified tick-borne agents that infect land birds and seabirds, respectively. The recent molecular characterization of both viruses confirmed their already known close serological relationship and revealed them to be nonsegmented, single- and n...