Insect-specific virus discovery: significance for the arbovirus community

BG Bolling, SC Weaver, RB Tesh, N Vasilakis - Viruses, 2015 - mdpi.com
Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses), especially those transmitted by mosquitoes, are a
significant cause of morbidity and mortality in humans and animals worldwide. Recent …

Orthobunyaviruses: recent genetic and structural insights

RM Elliott - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2014 - nature.com
Orthobunyaviruses, which have small, tripartite, negative-sense RNA genomes and
structurally simple virions composed of just four proteins, can have devastating effects on …

Unprecedented genomic diversity of RNA viruses in arthropods reveals the ancestry of negative-sense RNA viruses

CX Li, M Shi, JH Tian, XD Lin, YJ Kang, LJ Chen… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Although arthropods are important viral vectors, the biodiversity of arthropod viruses, as well
as the role that arthropods have played in viral origins and evolution, is unclear. Through …

Taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales: update 2018

P Maes, SV Alkhovsky, Y Bào, M Beer, M Birkhead… - Archives of …, 2018 - Springer
In 2018, the family Arenaviridae was expanded by inclusion of 1 new genus and 5 novel
species. At the same time, the recently established order Bunyavirales was expanded by 3 …

Hantaviridae: Current Classification and Future Perspectives

L Laenen, V Vergote, CH Calisher, B Klempa… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent years, negative-sense RNA virus classification and taxon nomenclature have
undergone considerable transformation. In 2016, the new order Bunyavirales was …

Re-assessing the diversity of negative strand RNA viruses in insects

S Käfer, S Paraskevopoulou, F Zirkel, N Wieseke… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The spectrum of viruses in insects is important for subjects as diverse as public health,
veterinary medicine, food production, and biodiversity conservation. The traditional interest …

High-resolution metatranscriptomics reveals the ecological dynamics of mosquito-associated RNA viruses in Western Australia

M Shi, P Neville, J Nicholson, JS Eden, A Imrie… - Journal of …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mosquitoes harbor a high diversity of RNA viruses, including many that impact human
health. Despite a growing effort to describe the extent and nature of the mosquito virome …

Insect-specific virus evolution and potential effects on vector competence

P Öhlund, H Lundén, AL Blomström - Virus genes, 2019 - Springer
The advancement in high-throughput sequencing technology and bioinformatics tools has
spurred a new age of viral discovery. Arthropods is the largest group of animals and has …

Insect-specific viruses and their potential impact on arbovirus transmission

N Vasilakis, RB Tesh - Current opinion in virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•ISVs are novel RNA viruses associated with hematophagous insects.•Belong in
diverse families such as Bunyaviridae, Mesoviviridae, and Rhabdoviridae.•Little is known …

Promotion of order Bunyavirales to class Bunyaviricetes to accommodate a rapidly increasing number of related polyploviricotine viruses

JH Kuhn, K Brown, S Adkins, JC de la Torre… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Prior to 2017, the family Bunyaviridae included five genera of arthropod and rodent viruses
with tri-segmented negative-sense RNA genomes related to the Bunyamwera virus. In 2017 …