Pisoniviricetes
# Pisoniviricetes

Pisoniviricetes is a class of positive-strand RNA viruses which infect eukaryotes. A characteristic of the group is a conserved 3C-like protease from the PA clan of proteases for processing the translated polyprotein. The name of the group is a portmanteau of member orders "picornavirales, sobelivirales, nidovirales" and -viricetes which is the suffix for a virus class.

## Orders

The following orders are recognized:

* Nidovirales
* Picornavirales
* Sobelivirales
