The genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 Avulavirus is one of seven genera in the family Paramyxoviridae and contains viruses that used to be classified in the genus Rubulavirus

Rubulavirus

Rubulavirus is a genus of the Paramyxoviridae family of infectious viruses. The genus includes the mumps virus and parainfluenza type 2, 4a and 4b viruses.-External links:* http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Rubulavirus*...

, but which infect birds (hence the name avian rubulavirus) and translate protein V from an edited RNA transcript. They have a hemagglutinin-neuraminidase attachment protein and do not produce a non-structural protein C.

Members of this Genus

Members of this genus include the Newcastle disease

Newcastle disease

Newcastle disease is a contagious bird disease affecting many domestic and wild avian species. First found in Newcastle, United Kingdom in 1926, then by Burnet in 1943 in Australia in connection with laboratory infection where the virus was isolated from a ocular discharge of a patient to show the...

 virus (Avian parainfluenza virus 1) and Avian paramyxovirus

Avian paramyxovirus

-Introduction:Avian paramyxoviruses 1 through 9 are multiple unique serotypes of virus in the genera Avulavirus. Newcastle disease virus is another well characterized species within the same genus and is named APMV-1. Currently, avian paramyxoviruses consist of nine distinct known serotypes and...

 types 2 through 9. Goose paramyxovirus is a tentative member of this genus.

Sources

• Association of Applied Biologists
• Rothamsted Research

Newcastle disease is otherwise called Avian paramyxovirus 1

External links

• ViralZone: Avulavirus
• Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR): Paramyxoviridae