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

Peter J Walker¹, Stuart G Siddell², Elliot J Lefkowitz³, Arcady R Mushegian⁴, Evelien M Adriaenssens⁵, Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini⁶, Donald M Dempsey³, Bas E Dutilh^{7

8}, María Laura García⁹, R Curtis Hendrickson³, Sandra Junglen¹⁰, Mart Krupovic¹¹, Jens H Kuhn¹², Amy J Lambert¹³, Małgorzata Łobocka¹⁴, Hanna M Oksanen¹⁵, Richard J Orton¹⁶, David L Robertson¹⁶, Luisa Rubino¹⁷, Sead Sabanadzovic¹⁸, Peter Simmonds¹⁹, Donald B Smith¹⁹, Nobuhiro Suzuki²⁰, Koenraad Van Doorslaer²¹, Anne-Mieke Vandamme^{22

23}, Arvind Varsani²⁴, Francisco Murilo Zerbini²⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
² Faculty of Life Sciences, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 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. mushegian2@gmail.com.
⁵ Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK.
⁶ Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36570-000, Brazil.
⁷ Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, Room Z-509, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁸ Institute of Biodiversity, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich Schiller University, Fürstengraben 1, 07743, Jena, Germany.
⁹ Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular, CCT-La Plata, CONICET - UNLP, calles 47 y 115 (1900), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁰ Institute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, corporate member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt-University Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
¹¹ Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Archaeal Virology Unit,, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France.
¹² NIH/NIAID/DCR/Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), B-8200 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA.
¹³ Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Fort Collins, CO, 80521, USA.
¹⁴ Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland.
¹⁵ Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 9, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁶ MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Sir Michael Stoker Building, 464 Bearsden Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, UK.
¹⁷ Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, CNR, UOS Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126, Bari, Italy.
¹⁸ Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, 100 Old Hwy 12 Mail Stop 9775, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA.
¹⁹ Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Peter Medawar Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3SY, UK.
²⁰ Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Okayama, 710-0046, Japan.
²¹ Department of Immunobiology, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.
²² KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and TransplantationClinical and Epidemiological VirologyInstitute for the Future, Rega Institute for Medical Research, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
²³ Center for Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Unidade de Microbiologia, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Rua da Junqueira, 100, 1349-008, Lisbon, Portugal.
²⁴ 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.
²⁵ Departamento de Fitopatologia/BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36570-900, Brazil.

PMID: 35999326
PMCID: PMC10088433
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-022-05516-5

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

Peter J Walker et al. Arch Virol. 2022 Nov.

. 2022 Nov;167(11):2429-2440.

doi: 10.1007/s00705-022-05516-5.

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¹ School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
² Faculty of Life Sciences, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 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. mushegian2@gmail.com.
⁵ Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK.
⁶ Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36570-000, Brazil.
⁷ Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, Room Z-509, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁸ Institute of Biodiversity, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich Schiller University, Fürstengraben 1, 07743, Jena, Germany.
⁹ Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular, CCT-La Plata, CONICET - UNLP, calles 47 y 115 (1900), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁰ Institute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, corporate member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt-University Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
¹¹ Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Archaeal Virology Unit,, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France.
¹² NIH/NIAID/DCR/Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), B-8200 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA.
¹³ Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Fort Collins, CO, 80521, USA.
¹⁴ Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland.
¹⁵ Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 9, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁶ MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Sir Michael Stoker Building, 464 Bearsden Road, Glasgow, G61 1QH, UK.
¹⁷ Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, CNR, UOS Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126, Bari, Italy.
¹⁸ Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, 100 Old Hwy 12 Mail Stop 9775, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA.
¹⁹ Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Peter Medawar Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3SY, UK.
²⁰ Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Okayama, 710-0046, Japan.
²¹ Department of Immunobiology, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.
²² KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and TransplantationClinical and Epidemiological VirologyInstitute for the Future, Rega Institute for Medical Research, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
²³ Center for Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Unidade de Microbiologia, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Rua da Junqueira, 100, 1349-008, Lisbon, Portugal.
²⁴ 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.
²⁵ Departamento de Fitopatologia/BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36570-900, Brazil.

PMID: 35999326
PMCID: PMC10088433
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-022-05516-5

Abstract

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

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