Changes to virus taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2019)

Peter J Walker; Stuart G Siddell; Elliot J Lefkowitz; Arcady R Mushegian; Donald M Dempsey; Bas E Dutilh; Balázs Harrach; Robert L Harrison; R Curtis Hendrickson; Sandra Junglen; Nick J Knowles; Andrew M Kropinski; Mart Krupovic; Jens H Kuhn; Max Nibert; Luisa Rubino; Sead Sabanadzovic; Peter Simmonds; Arvind Varsani; Francisco Murilo Zerbini; Andrew J Davison

doi:10.1007/s00705-019-04306-w

Changes to virus taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2019)

Arch Virol. 2019 Sep;164(9):2417-2429. doi: 10.1007/s00705-019-04306-w.

Authors

Peter J Walker¹, Stuart G Siddell², Elliot J Lefkowitz³, Arcady R Mushegian⁴, Donald M Dempsey³, Bas E Dutilh^{5

6}, Balázs Harrach⁷, Robert L Harrison⁸, R Curtis Hendrickson³, Sandra Junglen⁹, Nick J Knowles¹⁰, Andrew M Kropinski^{11

12}, Mart Krupovic¹³, Jens H Kuhn¹⁴, Max Nibert¹⁵, Luisa Rubino¹⁶, Sead Sabanadzovic¹⁷, Peter Simmonds¹⁸, Arvind Varsani¹⁹, Francisco Murilo Zerbini²⁰, Andrew J Davison²¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
² School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK.
³ Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), BBRB 276, 845 19th ST South, Birmingham, AL, 35294-2170, USA.
⁴ Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, National Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA, 22314, USA. [email protected].
⁵ Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, Room Z-509, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁶ Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc), Geert Grooteplein 26, 6525 GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁷ Centre for Agricultural Research, Institute for Veterinary Medical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungária krt. 21, Budapest, 1143, Hungary.
⁸ Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Bldg 007, BARC-West, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA.
⁹ Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, corporate member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁰ The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey, GU24 0NF, UK.
¹¹ Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada.
¹² Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada.
¹³ Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France.
¹⁴ NIH/NIAID/DCR Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), B-8200 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, 77 Ave Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
¹⁶ Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, CNR, UOS Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126, Bari, Italy.
¹⁷ Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, 100 Old Hwy 12 Mail Stop 9775, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA.
¹⁸ Nuffield Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Oxford, Peter Medawar Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK.
¹⁹ The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, School of Life Sciences, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 874701, Tempe, AZ, 85287-4701, USA.
²⁰ Departamento de Fitopatologia/BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36570-900, Brazil.
²¹ MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Sir Michael Stoker Building, 464 Bearsden Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, UK.

PMID: 31187277
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-019-04306-w

Abstract

This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in February 2019. Of note, in addition to seven new virus families, the ICTV has approved, by an absolute majority, the creation of the realm Riboviria, a likely monophyletic group encompassing all viruses with positive-strand, negative-strand and double-strand genomic RNA that use cognate RNA-directed RNA polymerases for replication.

MeSH terms

Committee Membership
RNA, Viral / genetics
Terminology as Topic
Virology / organization & administration*
Virology / standards
Viruses / classification*
Viruses / genetics
Viruses / isolation & purification

Substances

RNA, Viral

Abstract

MeSH terms

Substances

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