''Sunviridae'' is a family of negative-strand RNA viruses in the order ''

Mononegavirales ''Mononegavirales'' is an order of negative-strand RNA viruses which have nonsegmented genomes. Some common members of the order are Ebola virus, human respiratory syncytial virus, measles virus, mumps virus, Nipah virus, and rabies virus. All ...

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serve as natural hosts. The family includes the single genus ''Sunshinevirus'' which includes the single species ''Reptile sunshinevirus 1''.The family was formed to accommodate the Sunshine Coast

virus A virus is a wikt:submicroscopic, submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living Cell (biology), cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and ...

(SunCV), previously referred to as "Sunshine virus", a novel virus discovered in Australian pythons. The name derives from the geographic origin of the first isolate on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia.

Genome

Sunshineviruses have a nonsegmented,

negative-sense In molecular biology and genetics, the sense of a nucleic acid molecule, particularly of a strand of DNA or RNA, refers to the nature of the roles of the strand and its complement in specifying a sequence of amino acids. Depending on the context, ...

, single-stranded RNA genome. The total length of the genome is 17 kbp. The genome encodes seven proteins.

References

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