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. 2023 Aug;104(8):001864.
doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001864.

Annual (2023) taxonomic update of RNA-directed RNA polymerase-encoding negative-sense RNA viruses (realm Riboviria: kingdom Orthornavirae: phylum Negarnaviricota)

Jens H Kuhn  1 Junya Abe  2 Scott Adkins  3 Sergey V Alkhovsky  4 Tatjana Avšič-Županc  5 María A Ayllón  6 Justin Bahl  7 Anne Balkema-Buschmann  8 Matthew J Ballinger  9 Virendra Kumar Baranwal  10 Martin Beer  11 Nicolas Bejerman  12 Éric Bergeron  13 Nadine Biedenkopf  14 Carol D Blair  15 Kim R Blasdell  16 Arnaud G Blouin  17 Steven B Bradfute  18 Thomas Briese  19 Paul A Brown  20 Ursula J Buchholz  21 Michael J Buchmeier  22 Alexander Bukreyev  23 Felicity Burt  24 Carmen Büttner  25 Charles H Calisher  26 Mengji Cao  27 Inmaculada Casas  28 Kartik Chandran  29 Rémi N Charrel  30 Krishna Kumar Chaturvedi  31 Kar Mun Chooi  32 Anya Crane  33 Elena Dal Bó  34 Juan Carlos de la Torre  35 William M de Souza  36 Rik L de Swart  37 Humberto Debat  38 Nolwenn M Dheilly  39 Nicholas Di Paola  40 Francesco Di Serio  41 Ralf G Dietzgen  42 Michele Digiaro  43 J Felix Drexler  44 W Paul Duprex  45 Ralf Dürrwald  46 Andrew J Easton  47 Toufic Elbeaino  43 Koray Ergünay  48   49   50   51 Guozhong Feng  52 Andrew E Firth  53 Anthony R Fooks  54 Pierre B H Formenty  55 Juliana Freitas-Astúa  56 Selma Gago-Zachert  57 María Laura García  58 Adolfo García-Sastre  59 Aura R Garrison  40 Thomas R Gaskin  60   61 Wenjie Gong  62 Jean-Paul J Gonzalez  63 JoëlleGoüy de Bellocq  64 Anthony Griffiths  65 Martin H Groschup  66 Ines Günther  61 Stephan Günther  67 John Hammond  68 Yusuke Hasegawa  69 Kazusa Hayashi  70 Jussi Hepojoki  71   72 Colleen M Higgins  73 Seiji Hongō  74 Masayuki Horie  75 Holly R Hughes  76 Adam J Hume  65 Timothy H Hyndman  77 Kenichi Ikeda  78 Dàohóng Jiāng  79 Gilda B Jonson  80 Sandra Junglen  81 Boris Klempa  82 Jonas Klingström  83 Hideki Kondō  84 Eugene V Koonin  85 Mart Krupovic  86 Kenji Kubota  87 Gael Kurath  88 Lies Laenen  89 Amy J Lambert  76 Jiànróng Lǐ  90 Jun-Min Li  91 Ran Liu  92 Igor S Lukashevich  93 Robin M MacDiarmid  94 Piet Maes  95 Marco Marklewitz  96 Sergio H Marshall  97 Shin-Yi L Marzano  98 John W McCauley  99 Ali Mirazimi  100 Elke Mühlberger  65 Tomoyuki Nabeshima  101 Rayapati Naidu  102 Tomohide Natsuaki  103 Beatriz Navarro  41 José A Navarro  104 Yutaro Neriya  105 Sergey V Netesov  106 Gabriele Neumann  107 Norbert Nowotny  108   109 Márcio R T Nunes  110 Francisco M Ochoa-Corona  111 Tomoyuki Okada  70 Gustavo Palacios  112 Vicente Pallás  113 Anna Papa  114 Sofia Paraskevopoulou  115 Colin R Parrish  116 Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa  117 Janusz T Pawęska  118 Daniel R Pérez  119 Florian Pfaff  11 Richard K Plemper  120 Thomas S Postler  121 Lee O Rabbidge  122 Sheli R Radoshitzky  123 Pedro L Ramos-González  124 Marius Rehanek  25 Renato O Resende  125 Carina A Reyes  126 Thaís C S Rodrigues  127 Víctor Romanowski  126 Dennis Rubbenstroth  11 Luisa Rubino  41 Jonathan A Runstadler  128 Sead Sabanadzovic  129 Sabrina Sadiq  130 Maria S Salvato  131 Takahide Sasaya  132 Martin Schwemmle  133 Stephen R Sharpe  134 Mang Shi  135 Yoshifumi Shimomoto  70 Venkidusamy Kavi Sidharthan  136 Manuela Sironi  137 Sophie Smither  138 Jin-Won Song  139 Kirsten M Spann  140 Jessica R Spengler  141 Mark D Stenglein  142 Ayato Takada  143 Sawana Takeyama  87 Akio Tatara  144 Robert B Tesh  23 Natalie J Thornburg  145 Xin Tian  27 Nicole D Tischler  146 Yasuhiro Tomitaka  132 Keizō Tomonaga  147 Noël Tordo  148 Changchun Tu  149   150 Massimo Turina  151 Ioannis E Tzanetakis  152 Anna Maria Vaira  151 Bernadette van den Hoogen  153 Bert Vanmechelen  154 Nikos Vasilakis  155 Martin Verbeek  156 Susanne von Bargen  25 Jiro Wada  33 Victoria Wahl  157 Peter J Walker  158 Thomas B Waltzek  159 Anna E Whitfield  160 Yuri I Wolf  85 Han Xia  161 Evanthia Xylogianni  162 Hironobu Yanagisawa  163 Kazutaka Yano  70 Gongyin Ye  164 Zhiming Yuan  161 F Murilo Zerbini  165 Guilin Zhang  166 Song Zhang  27   167 Yong-Zhen Zhang  168 Lu Zhao  161   169 Arnfinn Lodden Økland  170
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Annual (2023) taxonomic update of RNA-directed RNA polymerase-encoding negative-sense RNA viruses (realm Riboviria: kingdom Orthornavirae: phylum Negarnaviricota)

Jens H Kuhn et al. J Gen Virol. 2023 Aug.

Abstract

In April 2023, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) ratification vote on newly proposed taxa, the phylum Negarnaviricota was amended and emended. The phylum was expanded by one new family, 14 new genera, and 140 new species. Two genera and 538 species were renamed. One species was moved, and four were abolished. This article presents the updated taxonomy of Negarnaviricota as now accepted by the ICTV.

Keywords: Aliusviridae; Arenaviridae; Articulavirales; Artoviridae; Aspiviridae; Bornaviridae; Bunyavirales; Crepuscuviridae; Discoviridae; Filoviridae; Fimoviridae; Goujianvirales; Hantaviridae; ICTV; International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses; Jingchuvirales; Lispiviridae; Mononegavirales; Muvirales; Mymonaviridae; Myriaviridae; Nairoviridae; Natareviridae; Negarnaviricota; Nyamiviridae; Orthomyxoviridae; Orthornavirae; Paramyxoviridae; Peribunyaviridae; Phasmaviridae; Phenuiviridae; Pneumoviridae; Rhabdoviridae; Riboviria; Serpentovirales; Sunviridae; Tenuivirus; Tosoviridae; Tospoviridae; Tulasviridae; articulaviral; bunyaviral; bunyavirus; goujianviral; megaclassification; megataxonomy; mononegaviral; muviral; negarnaviricot; serpentoviral; virus classification; virus nomenclature; virus taxonomy.

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