TY - JOUR
T1 - Taxonomic reorganization of the family Bornaviridae
AU - Kuhn, Jens H.
AU - Dürrwald, Ralf
AU - Bào, Yīmíng
AU - Briese, Thomas
AU - Carbone, Kathryn
AU - Clawson, Anna N.
AU - deRisi, Joseph L.
AU - Garten, Wolfgang
AU - Jahrling, Peter B.
AU - Kolodziejek, Jolanta
AU - Rubbenstroth, Dennis
AU - Schwemmle, Martin
AU - Stenglein, Mark
AU - Tomonaga, Keizo
AU - Weissenböck, Herbert
AU - Nowotny, Norbert
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Laura Bollinger and Jiro Wada of the IRF-Frederick for critically editing the manuscript and creating/editing figures. JHK performed this work as an employee of Tunnell Government Services, Inc., and ANC, as the owner of Logos Consulting, Inc., both subcontractors to Battelle Memorial Institute under its prime contract with the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, under Contract No. HHSN272200700016I. This research was also supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine (YB).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer-Verlag Wien (outside the USA).
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - Knowledge of bornaviruses has expanded considerably during the last decade. A possible reservoir of mammalian Borna disease virus has been identified, divergent bornaviruses have been detected in birds and reptiles, and endogenous bornavirus-like elements have been discovered in the genomes of vertebrates of several species. Previous sequence comparisons and alignments have indicated that the members of the current family Bornaviridae are phylogenetically diverse and are not adequately classified in the existing bornavirus taxonomy supported by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). We provide an update of these analyses and describe their implications for taxonomy. We propose retaining the family name Bornaviridae and the genus Bornavirus but reorganizing species classification. PAirwise Sequence Comparison (PASC) of bornavirus genomes and Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) comparison of genomic and protein sequences, in combination with other already published phylogenetic analyses and known biological characteristics of bornaviruses, indicate that this genus should include at least five species: Mammalian 1 bornavirus (classical Borna disease virus and divergent Borna disease virus isolate No/98), Psittaciform 1 bornavirus (avian/psittacine bornaviruses 1, 2, 3, 4, 7), Passeriform 1 bornavirus (avian/canary bornaviruses C1, C2, C3, LS), Passeriform 2 bornavirus (estrildid finch bornavirus EF), and Waterbird 1 bornavirus (avian bornavirus 062CG). This classification is also in line with biological characteristics of these viruses and their vertebrate hosts. A snake bornavirus, proposed to be named Loveridge’s garter snake virus 1, should be classified as a member of an additional species (Elapid 1 bornavirus), unassigned to a genus, in the family Bornaviridae. Avian bornaviruses 5, 6, MALL, and another “reptile bornavirus” (“Gaboon viper virus”) should stay unclassified until further information becomes available. Finally, we propose new virus names and abbreviations when necessary to achieve clear differentiation and unique identification.
AB - Knowledge of bornaviruses has expanded considerably during the last decade. A possible reservoir of mammalian Borna disease virus has been identified, divergent bornaviruses have been detected in birds and reptiles, and endogenous bornavirus-like elements have been discovered in the genomes of vertebrates of several species. Previous sequence comparisons and alignments have indicated that the members of the current family Bornaviridae are phylogenetically diverse and are not adequately classified in the existing bornavirus taxonomy supported by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). We provide an update of these analyses and describe their implications for taxonomy. We propose retaining the family name Bornaviridae and the genus Bornavirus but reorganizing species classification. PAirwise Sequence Comparison (PASC) of bornavirus genomes and Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) comparison of genomic and protein sequences, in combination with other already published phylogenetic analyses and known biological characteristics of bornaviruses, indicate that this genus should include at least five species: Mammalian 1 bornavirus (classical Borna disease virus and divergent Borna disease virus isolate No/98), Psittaciform 1 bornavirus (avian/psittacine bornaviruses 1, 2, 3, 4, 7), Passeriform 1 bornavirus (avian/canary bornaviruses C1, C2, C3, LS), Passeriform 2 bornavirus (estrildid finch bornavirus EF), and Waterbird 1 bornavirus (avian bornavirus 062CG). This classification is also in line with biological characteristics of these viruses and their vertebrate hosts. A snake bornavirus, proposed to be named Loveridge’s garter snake virus 1, should be classified as a member of an additional species (Elapid 1 bornavirus), unassigned to a genus, in the family Bornaviridae. Avian bornaviruses 5, 6, MALL, and another “reptile bornavirus” (“Gaboon viper virus”) should stay unclassified until further information becomes available. Finally, we propose new virus names and abbreviations when necessary to achieve clear differentiation and unique identification.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00705-014-2276-z
DO - 10.1007/s00705-014-2276-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 25449305
AN - SCOPUS:84925494326
SN - 0304-8608
VL - 160
SP - 621
EP - 632
JO - Archives of Virology
JF - Archives of Virology
IS - 2
ER -