Avian bornavirus

In 2008, by pyrosequencing of cDNA from the brains of several parrots suffering from proventricular dilatation disease (PDD), Honkavuori et al. identified the presence of a novel bornavirus.

Avian bornaviruses
Scientific classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Monjiviricetes
Order: Mononegavirales
Family: Bornaviridae
Genus: Orthobornavirus
Groups included
  • Passeriform 1 orthobornavirus
  • Passeriform 2 orthobornavirus
  • Psittaciform 1 orthobornavirus
  • Psittaciform 2 orthobornavirus
  • Waterbird 1 orthobornavirus
Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa

Other orthobornaviruses

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