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. 2017 Sep 1:97–105. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803109-4.00010-6

Table 10.2.

Negative-Strand RNA Viruses of Animalsa

Virus family Virion morphology Genome type
Arenaviridae Enveloped, helical nuclecapsid Bisegmented (some use ambisense coding strategy)
Bornaviridaeb Enveloped, helical nuclecapsid Unsegmented
Bunyaviridae Enveloped, helical nuclecapsid Trisegmented (some use ambisense coding strategy)
Filoviridaeb Enveloped, helical nuclecapsid Unsegmented
Nymaviridaeb Enveloped, helical nucleocapsid Unsegmented
Orthmyxoviridae Enveloped, helical nuclecapsid Segmented
Paramyxoviridaeb Enveloped, helical nuclecapsid Unsegmented
Pneumoviridaeb Enveloped, helical nuclecapsid Unsegmented
Rhabdoviridaeb Enveloped, helical nuclecapsid Unsegmented
a

Only those families with members that infect vertebrates are included in this list.

b

Order Mononegavirales.