Molecular Virology Laboratory, Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands.
Arch Virol. 2012 Aug;157(8):1623-8. doi: 10.1007/s00705-012-1295-x. Epub 2012 Apr 24.
Recently, two independent surveillance studies in Côte d'Ivoire and Vietnam, respectively, led to the discovery of two mosquito-borne viruses, Cavally virus and Nam Dinh virus, with genome and proteome properties typical for viruses of the order Nidovirales. Using a state-of-the-art approach, we show that the two insect nidoviruses are (i) sufficiently different from other nidoviruses to represent a new virus family, and (ii) related to each other closely enough to be placed in the same virus species. We propose to name this new family Mesoniviridae. Meso is derived from the Greek word "mesos" (in English "in the middle") and refers to the distinctive genome size of these insect nidoviruses, which is intermediate between that of the families Arteriviridae and Coronaviridae, while ni is an abbreviation for "nido". A taxonomic proposal to establish the new family Mesoniviridae, genus Alphamesonivirus, and species Alphamesonivirus 1 has been approved for consideration by the Executive Committee of the ICTV.
最近，分别在科特迪瓦和越南进行的两项独立监测研究发现了两种虫媒病毒，即卡瓦利病毒和奠边府病毒，其基因组和蛋白质组特性均为套式病毒目病毒的典型特征。我们采用最先进的方法表明，这两种昆虫套式病毒（i）与其他套式病毒有足够的差异，足以代表一个新的病毒科，（ii）彼此之间足够密切，可以归为同一病毒种。我们提议将这个新的病毒科命名为 mesoniviridae。meso 源自希腊语单词“mesos”（英文为“in the middle”，意为“在中间”），指的是这些昆虫套式病毒独特的基因组大小，介于动脉炎病毒科和冠状病毒科之间，而 ni 是“nido”的缩写，意为“巢”。建立新的 mesoniviridae 病毒科、Alphamesonivirus 属和 Alphamesonivirus 1 种的分类提案已获得 ICTV 执行委员会的审议批准。
