Changes to virus taxonomy and the ICTV Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2024)

Peter Simmonds; Evelien M Adriaenssens; Elliot J Lefkowitz; Hanna M Oksanen; Stuart G Siddell; Francisco Murilo Zerbini; Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini; Frank O Aylward; Donald M Dempsey; Bas E Dutilh; Juliana Freitas-Astúa; María Laura García; R Curtis Hendrickson; Holly R Hughes; Sandra Junglen; Mart Krupovic; Jens H Kuhn; Amy J Lambert; Małgorzata Łobocka; Arcady R Mushegian; Judit Penzes; Alejandro Reyes Muñoz; David L Robertson; Simon Roux; Luisa Rubino; Sead Sabanadzovic; Donald B Smith; Nobuhiro Suzuki; Dann Turner; Koenraad Van Doorslaer; Anne-Mieke Vandamme; Arvind Varsani

doi:10.1007/s00705-024-06143-y

Changes to virus taxonomy and the ICTV Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2024)

Arch Virol. 2024 Nov 3;169(11):236. doi: 10.1007/s00705-024-06143-y.

Authors

Peter Simmonds¹, Evelien M Adriaenssens², Elliot J Lefkowitz³, Hanna M Oksanen⁴, Stuart G Siddell⁵, Francisco Murilo Zerbini⁶, Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini⁷, Frank O Aylward⁸, Donald M Dempsey³, Bas E Dutilh^{9

10}, Juliana Freitas-Astúa¹¹, María Laura García¹², R Curtis Hendrickson³, Holly R Hughes¹³, Sandra Junglen¹⁴, Mart Krupovic¹⁵, Jens H Kuhn¹⁶, Amy J Lambert¹⁷, Małgorzata Łobocka¹⁸, Arcady R Mushegian¹⁹, Judit Penzes²⁰, Alejandro Reyes Muñoz²¹, David L Robertson²², Simon Roux²³, Luisa Rubino²⁴, Sead Sabanadzovic^{25

26}, Donald B Smith²⁷, Nobuhiro Suzuki²⁸, Dann Turner²⁹, Koenraad Van Doorslaer³⁰, Anne-Mieke Vandamme^{31

32}, Arvind Varsani³³

Affiliations

¹ Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Peter Medawar Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3SY, UK. [email protected].
² Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK.
³ Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, BBRB 276, 845 19th St South, Birmingham, AL, 35294-2170, USA.
⁴ Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 9, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.
⁵ School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK.
⁶ Departamento de Fitopatologia/BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36570-900, Brazil.
⁷ Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36570-900, Brazil.
⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
⁹ Institute of Biodiversity, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich Schiller University, Fürstengraben 1, 07743, Jena, Germany.
¹⁰ Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹¹ Embrapa Cassava and Fruits, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Cruz das Almas, BA, 44380-000, Brazil.
¹² Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular, CCT-La Plata, CONICET-UNLP, Calles 47 y 115 (1900), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹³ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
¹⁴ Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Corporate Member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt-University Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁵ Archaeal Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR6047, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France.
¹⁶ Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, Division of Clinical Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, B-8200 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA.
¹⁷ Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Fort Collins, CO, 80521, USA.
¹⁸ Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland.
¹⁹ Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, National Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA, 22314, USA.
²⁰ Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
²¹ Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
²² MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Sir Michael Stoker Building, 464 Bearsden Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, UK.
²³ DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
²⁴ Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Sede Secondaria di Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126, Bari, Italy.
²⁵ Department of Agricultural Science and Plant Protection, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA.
²⁶ Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing and Biotechnology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA.
²⁷ Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Peter Medawar Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3SY, UK.
²⁸ Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Okayama, 710-0046, Japan.
²⁹ School of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health, Science and Society, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
³⁰ Department of Immunobiology, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.
³¹ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
³² Center for Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Rua da Junqueira, 100, 1349-008, Lisbon, Portugal.
³³ The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, School of Life Sciences, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-4701, USA.

Abstract

This article reports changes to virus taxonomy and taxon nomenclature that were approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in April 2024. The entire ICTV membership was invited to vote on 203 taxonomic proposals that had been approved by the ICTV Executive Committee (EC) in July 2023 at the 55th EC meeting in Jena, Germany, or in the second EC vote in November 2023. All proposals were ratified by online vote. Taxonomic additions include one new phylum (Ambiviricota), one new class, nine new orders, three new suborders, 51 new families, 18 new subfamilies, 820 new genera, and 3547 new species (excluding taxa that have been abolished). Proposals to complete the process of species name replacement to the binomial (genus + species epithet) format were ratified. Currently, a total of 14,690 virus species have been established.

MeSH terms

Classification / methods
Phylogeny
Terminology as Topic*
Virology / methods
Viruses* / classification
Viruses* / genetics
Viruses* / isolation & purification