Avian 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

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.