Ghabrivirales Explained

Ghabrivirales is an order of double-stranded RNA viruses.[1] It is the only order in the class Chrysmotiviricetes. The name of the class is a portmanteau of member families: chrysoviridae, megabirnaviridae, and totiviridae; and -viricetes which is the suffix for a virus class. The name of the order derives from Said Ghabrial, a pioneering researcher who studied viruses in this order, and -virales which is the suffix for a virus order.[2]

Taxonomy

The following families are recognized:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virus Taxonomy: 2019 Release. 25 April 2020. talk.ictvonline.org. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
  2. Web site: Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini M, Kuhn JH. Proposal: Create a megataxonomic framework, filling all principal taxonomic ranks, for realm Riboviria. 2020-05-21. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). en.

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