Family: Paramyxoviridae

Genus: Cynoglossusvirus

Citation: Paramyxoviridae

A summary of this ICTV Report chapter has been published as an ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile article in the Journal of General Virology, and should be cited when referencing this online chapter as follows: 

References: Paramyxoviridae

Ahne, W., Batts, W. N., Kurath, G. & Winton, J. R. (1999).  Comparative sequence analyses of sixteen reptilian paramyxoviruses. Virus Res 63, 65-74. [PubMed] 

Resources: Paramyxoviridae

Sequence alignments and tree files:

Figure 3. Paramyxoviridae:

Tree file (newick format)

Alignment file (FASTA format)

Authors: Paramyxoviridae

Bert K. Rima*
Centre for Experimental Medicine
School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast, BT9 7BL
Northern Ireland
UK
E-mail: b.rima@qub.ac.uk

Subfamily: Avulavirinae

Genus: Paraavulavirus

Distinguishing features

Members of all species of the genus Paraavulavirus have hemagglutinin and neuraminidase activities. They share greater sequence relatedness within the genus than with members of other genera.

Virion

See discussion under family description. 

Subfamily: Avulavirinae

Genus: Metaavulavirus

Distinguishing features

Members of all species of the genus Metaavulavirus share greater sequence relatedness within the genus than with members of other genera.

Virion

See discussion under family description. 

Genome organization and replication

See discussion under family description. 

Subfamily: Avulavirinae

Genus: Orthoavulavirus

Distinguishing features

Members of all species of the genus Orthoavulavirus share greater sequence relatedness within the genus than with members of other genera.  

Virion

See discussion under family description.  

Family: Paramyxoviridae

Subfamily: Avulavirinae

Distinguishing features

The subfamily is defined on the basis of phylogenetic relationships of complete large (L) protein amino acid sequences (Rima et al., 2018).  

Subfamily: Rubulavirinae

Genus: Pararubulavirus