Articulavirales is an order of segmented negative-strand RNA viruses which infect and . It includes the Orthomyxoviridae which infect humans. It is the only order of in the monotypic taxon class Insthoviricetes. The order contains two families and eight genera. Metatranscriptomics of aquatic animal samples paired with phylogenetics suggests that Articulavirales exhibits complex cross-species virus transmission and virus-host co-divergence over deep evolutionary time scales. Potentially originating in ancient aquatic animals at least 600 Mya.
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