Bundibugyo ebolavirus [SEP] parent taxon
Bioterrorism Agent, and is listed as a Biological Agent for Export Control by the Australia Group.
Use of term.
The species "Bundibugyo ebolavirus" is a virological taxon (i.e. a man-made concept) that was suggested in 2008 to be included in the genus "Ebolavirus", family "Filoviridae", order "Mononegavirales". The species has a single virus member, Bundibugyo virus (BDBV). The members of the species are called Bundibugyo ebolaviruses. The name "Bundibugyo ebolavirus" is derived from
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of