Durnavirales Explained

Durnavirales is an order of double-stranded RNA viruses which infect eukaryotes.^[1] The name of the group derives from Italian duplo which means double (a reference to double-stranded), rna for the type of virus, and -virales which is the suffix for a virus order.^[2]

Families

The following families are recognized:^[1]

• Amalgaviridae
• Curvulaviridae
• Hypoviridae
• Partitiviridae
• Picobirnaviridae

Notes and References

1. Web site: Virus Taxonomy: 2020 Release . International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) . March 2021 . 20 May 2021.
2. Web site: Proposal: Create a megataxonomic framework, filling all principal taxonomic ranks, for realm Riboviria. Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini M, Kuhn JH. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). en. 2020-05-21.