ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Arenaviridae 2023

J Gen Virol. 2023 Sep;104(9):001891. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001891.

Abstract

Arenaviridae is a family for ambisense RNA viruses with genomes of about 10.5 kb that infect mammals, snakes, and fish. The arenavirid genome consists of two or three single-stranded RNA segments and encodes a nucleoprotein (NP), a glycoprotein (GP) and a large (L) protein containing RNA-directed RNA polymerase (RdRP) domains; some arenavirids encode a zinc-binding protein (Z). This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) report on the family Arenaviridae, which is available at www.ictv.global/report/arenaviridae.

Keywords: Arenaviridae; ICTV Report; arenavirus; mammarenavirus; reptarenavirus; taxonomy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Arenaviridae* / genetics
  • Mammals
  • Nucleoproteins / genetics
  • RNA
  • RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase

Substances

  • Nucleoproteins
  • RNA
  • RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase