Articulavirales is an order of segmented negative-strand RNA viruses which infect invertebrates and vertebrates.
[2] It includes the family of influenza viruses which infect humans.
[1] 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.
[4] The order name Articulavirales derives from Latin articulata meaning "segmented" (alluding to the segmented genome of member viruses) added to the suffix for virus orders -virales.
[3] Member viruses have segmented, negative-sense, single-stranded RNA genomes.