<i>Jingchuvirales</i> : a New Taxonomical Framework for a Rapidly Expanding Order of Unusual Monjiviricete Viruses Broadly Distributed among Arthropod Subphyla
Nicholas Di Paola, Nolwenn M. Dheilly, Sandra Junglen, Sofia Paraskevopoulou, Thomas S. Postler, Mǎng Shī, Jens H. Kuhn
Abstract
Technical advances in metagenomics and metatranscriptomics have dramatically accelerated virus discovery in recent years. “Chuviruses” were first described in 2015 as obscure negative-sense RNA viruses of diverse arthropods. Although chuviruses first appeared to be members of the negarnaviricot order Mononegavirales in phylogenetic analyses using RNA-directed RNA polymerase sequences, further characterization revealed unusual gene orders in genomes that are nonsegmented, segmented, and/or possibly circular.
Topics & Concepts
BiologyMetagenomicsGenomeArthropodRNAPhylogenetic treeGeneticsPhylogeneticsEvolutionary biologyComputational biologyMononegaviralesGeneRNA virusRhabdoviridaeVirologyVirusParamyxoviridaeEcologyViral diseaseRabies virusViral Infections and VectorsMosquito-borne diseases and controlPlant Virus Research Studies