Betanodavirus

Betanodavirus
Electron micrographs of grouper nervous necrosis virus particles
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Kitrinoviricota
Class: Magsaviricetes
Order: Nodamuvirales
Family: Nodaviridae
Genus: Betanodavirus

Betanodavirus, or nervous necrosis virus (NNV), is a genus of nonenveloped positive-strand RNA viruses in the family Nodaviridae.[1] Member viruses infect fish and cause viral nervous necrosis (VNN) and viral encephalopathy and retinopathy (VER).[2] The genus contains four species.[3]

  1. ^ Sahul Hameed, AS; Ninawe, AS; Nakai, T; Chi, SC; Johnson, KL; ICTV Report, Consortium (January 2019). "ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Nodaviridae". The Journal of General Virology. 100 (1): 3–4. doi:10.1099/jgv.0.001170. PMID 30431412.
  2. ^ "Viral Zone". ExPASy. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  3. ^ Cann, Alan (2001). Principles of Molecular Virology. Academic Press. pp. 870–871. ISBN 9780121585334. Retrieved 7 September 2020.