Avian bornavirus

Avian bornaviruses are a group of RNA viruses that may cause disease, particularly proventricular dilatation disease (PDD), in infected birds that develop autoimmunity and inflammation of neural ganglia. A number of species have been sequenced from infected parrots, passerines, waterfowl, and shorebirds. The viruses fall under the genus Orthobornavirus in the family Bornaviridae, which also contains non-avian bornaviruses.

Avian bornaviruses
Scientific classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Monjiviricetes
Order: Mononegavirales
Family: Bornaviridae
Genus: Orthobornavirus
Groups included
  • Orthobornavirus serini
  • Orthobornavirus estrildidae
  • Orthobornavirus alphapsittaciforme
  • Orthobornavirus betapsittaciforme
  • Orthobornavirus avisaquaticae
Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa

Other orthobornaviruses

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