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The family Rhabdoviridae: mono- and bipartite negative-sense RNA viruses with diverse genome organization and common evolutionary origins

  • Ralf G. Dietzgen
  • , Hideki Kondo
  • , Michael M. Goodin
  • , Gael Kurath
  • , Nikos Vasilakis

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Abstract

The family Rhabdoviridae consists of mostly enveloped, bullet-shaped or bacilliform viruses with a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA genome that infect vertebrates, invertebrates or plants. This ecological diversity is reflected by the diversity and complexity of their genomes. Five canonical structural protein genes are conserved in all rhabdoviruses, but may be overprinted, overlapped or interspersed with several novel and diverse accessory genes. This review gives an overview of the characteristics and diversity of rhabdoviruses, their taxonomic classification, replication mechanism, properties of classical rhabdoviruses such as rabies virus and rhabdoviruses with complex genomes, rhabdoviruses infecting aquatic species, and plant rhabdoviruses with both mono- and bipartite genomes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)158-170
Number of pages13
JournalVirus Research
Volume227
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2 2017

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier B.V.

Funding

This work was jointly supported by the Queensland Government Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and the University of Queensland . Author contributions were also supported in part by the International Collaboration Research Program on Joint Usage/Research Center Program at the IPSR, Okayama University and by a grant from the National Institutes of Health R24AI120942 to NV.

FundersFunder number
IPSR
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesR24AI120942
Queensland University of Technology QUT
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government
Okayama University

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    Keywords

    • Diversity
    • Genome organization
    • Negative-sense RNA virus
    • Replication
    • Rhabdovirus
    • Taxonomy

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Cancer Research
    • Virology
    • Infectious Diseases

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