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Title: ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Discoviridae 2023

Author
item KUHN, JENS - National Institutes Of Health (NIH)
item Adkins, Scott
item BROWN, KATHERINE - University Of Cambridge
item DE LA TORRE, JUAN - Scripps Institute
item DIGIARO, MICHELE - Mediterranean Agronomic Institute Of Bari
item HUGHES, HOLLY - Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC) - United States
item JUNGLEN, SANDRA - Institute Of Virology - Charité – Universitätsmedizin
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 ZHANG, YONG-ZHEN - Fudan University
item TURINA, MASSIMO - National Research Council - Italy

Submitted to: Journal of General Virology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/18/2023
Publication Date: 12/7/2023
Citation: Kuhn, J.H., Adkins, S.T., Brown, K., De La Torre, J.C., Digiaro, M., Hughes, H.R., Junglen, S., Lambert, A.J., Maes, P., Marklewitz, M., Palacios, G., Sasaya, T., Zhang, Y., Turina, M. ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Discoviridae 2023. Journal of General Virology. 104:12. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001926.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001926

Interpretive Summary: Discovery and characterization of new virus species require regular additions and revisions to virus taxonomy to keep pace with the science. Six new families have been created in the order Bunyavirales to accommodate these novel viruses. This article presents a timely update on the family Discoviridae, whose member viruses have recently been found in fungi, for virologists in research and regulatory environments.

Technical Abstract: Discoviridae is a family of negative-sense RNA viruses with genomes of 6.2–9.7 kb that have been associated with fungi and stramenopiles. The genomes of discovirids consist of three segments with three open reading frames encoding nucleoproteins, glycoproteins, and large proteins containing an RNA-directed RNA polymerase domain. This article presents an updated taxonomy of the order Bunyavirales as now accepted by the ICTV.