ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Fimoviridae

Abstract

Members of the family Fimoviridae, order Bunyavirales are plant viruses with segmented, linear, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA genomes. They are distantly related to orthotospoviruses and orthobunyaviruses of the families Tospoviridae and Peribunyaviridae, respectively. The family Fimoviridae includes the genus Emaravirus, which comprises several species with European mountain ash ringspot-associated emaravirus as the type species. Fimoviruses are transmitted to plants by eriophyid mite vectors and induce similar characteristic cytopathologies in their host plants, including the presence of double membrane-bound bodies in the cytoplasm of the virus-infected cells. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the Fimoviridae, which is available at www.ictv.global/report/fimoviridae.

Keywords: Emaravirus; Fimoviridae; ICTV Report; taxonomy.