''Tobaniviridae'' is a family of enveloped,

positive-strand RNA viruses Positive-strand RNA viruses (+ssRNA viruses) are a group of related viruses that have positive-sense, single-stranded genomes made of ribonucleic acid. The positive-sense genome can act as messenger RNA (mRNA) and can be directly translated i ...

in the order ''

Nidovirales ''Nidovirales'' is an order of enveloped, positive-strand RNA viruses which infect vertebrates and invertebrates. Host organisms include mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, arthropods, molluscs, and helminths. The order includes the f ...

'' which infect

vertebrates Vertebrates () comprise all animal taxa within the subphylum Vertebrata () ( chordates with backbones), including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, wi ...

. Host organisms include

mammals Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fu ...

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% ...

, and

snakes Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more j ...

. The genome size of tobaniviruses ranges from 20 to 32 kilobases. The family is the only member of the

suborder Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...

''Tornidovirineae''.

Taxonomy

The family ''Tobaniviridae'' has four subfamilies and eight genera: *'' Piscanivirinae'' **'' Bafinivirus'' **'' Oncotshavirus'' *'' Remotovirinae'' **'' Bostovirus'' *'' Serpentovirinae'' **'' Infratovirus'' **'' Pregotovirus'' **'' Sectovirus'' **'' Tiruvirus'' *'' Torovirinae'' **''

Torovirus ''Torovirus'' is a genus of enveloped, positive-strand RNA viruses in the order ''Nidovirales'' and family ''Tobaniviridae''. They primarily infect vertebrates, especially cattle, pigs, and horses. Diseases associated with this genus include ...

References

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