Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022)

This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2022. The entire ICTV was invited to vote on 174 taxonomic proposals approved by the ICTV Executive Committee at its annual meeting in July 2021. All proposa...

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Published in:Archives of virology Vol. 167; no. 11; pp. 2429 - 2440
Main Authors: Walker, Peter J., Siddell, Stuart G., Lefkowitz, Elliot J., Mushegian, Arcady R., Adriaenssens, Evelien M., Alfenas-Zerbini, Poliane, Dempsey, Donald M., Dutilh, Bas E., García, María Laura, Curtis Hendrickson, R., Junglen, Sandra, Krupovic, Mart, Kuhn, Jens H., Lambert, Amy J., Łobocka, Małgorzata, Oksanen, Hanna M., Orton, Richard J., Robertson, David L., Rubino, Luisa, Sabanadzovic, Sead, Simmonds, Peter, Smith, Donald B., Suzuki, Nobuhiro, Van Doorslaer, Koenraad, Vandamme, Anne-Mieke, Varsani, Arvind, Zerbini, Francisco Murilo
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01.11.2022
Springer Nature B.V
Springer Verlag
Subjects:
annuals
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Committee Membership
committees
Infectious Diseases
Life Sciences
Medical Microbiology
Microbiology and Parasitology
Names
Proposals
Taxonomy
Virology
Virology Division News
Viruses
Viruses - genetics
ISSN:0304-8608, 1432-8798, 1432-8798
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Summary:This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2022. The entire ICTV was invited to vote on 174 taxonomic proposals approved by the ICTV Executive Committee at its annual meeting in July 2021. All proposals were ratified by an absolute majority of the ICTV members. Of note, the Study Groups have started to implement the new rule for uniform virus species naming that became effective in 2021 and mandates the binomial ‘Genus_name species_epithet’ format with or without Latinization. As a result of this ratification, the names of 6,481 virus species (more than 60 percent of all species names currently recognized by ICTV) now follow this format.
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ISSN:0304-8608
1432-8798
1432-8798
DOI:10.1007/s00705-022-05516-5