Picornavirales

Picornavirales
Picornavirus replication cycle
Picornavirus replication cycle
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Pisuviricota
Class: Pisoniviricetes
Order: Picornavirales

Picornavirales is an order of viruses with vertebrate, invertebrate, protist and plant hosts.[1] The name has a dual etymology.[2] First, picorna- is an acronym for poliovirus, insensitivity to ether, coxsackievirus, orphan virus, rhinovirus, and ribonucleic acid.[2] Secondly, pico-, meaning extremely small, combines with RNA to describe these very small RNA viruses.[2] The order comprises viruses that historically are referred to as picorna-like viruses.

  1. ^ Le Gall, Olivier; Christian, Peter; Fauquet, Claude M.; King, Andrew M. Q.; Knowles, Nick J.; Nakashima, Nobuhiko; Stanway, Glyn; Gorbalenya, Alexander E. (2008-04-01). "Picornavirales, a proposed order of positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses with a pseudo-T = 3 virion architecture". Archives of Virology. 153 (4): 715–27. doi:10.1007/s00705-008-0041-x. PMID 18293057. S2CID 2303309.
  2. ^ a b c "Picornaviridae". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). October 2017. Archived from the original on September 21, 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2019.