TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes to virus taxonomy and the Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2020)
AU - Walker, Peter J.
AU - Siddell, Stuart G.
AU - Lefkowitz, Elliot J.
AU - Mushegian, Arcady R.
AU - Adriaenssens, Evelien M.
AU - Dempsey, Donald M.
AU - Dutilh, Bas E.
AU - Harrach, Balázs
AU - Harrison, Robert L.
AU - Hendrickson, R. Curtis
AU - Junglen, Sandra
AU - Knowles, Nick J.
AU - Kropinski, Andrew M.
AU - Krupovic, Mart
AU - Kuhn, Jens H.
AU - Nibert, Max
AU - Orton, Richard J.
AU - Rubino, Luisa
AU - Sabanadzovic, Sead
AU - Simmonds, Peter
AU - Smith, Donald B.
AU - Varsani, Arvind
AU - Zerbini, Francisco Murilo
AU - Davison, Andrew J.
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The authors declare no conflicts of interest. A.R.M. is a Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF); the statements and opinions expressed herein are made in a personal capacity and do not constitute endorsement by NSF or the government of the United States. Mention of trade names or commercial products in this publication is solely for the purpose of providing specific information and does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. USDA is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the US Department of Health and Human Services or of the institutions and companies affiliated with the authors. This work was supported in part through Laulima Government Solutions, LLC’s prime contract with the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Contract No. HHSN272201800013C. J.H.K. performed this work as an employee of Tunnell Government Services (TGS), a subcontractor of Laulima Government Solutions, LLC under Contract No. HHSN272201800013C. N.J.K. is partially supported by core funding provided by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK. B.E.D. is supported by Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Vidi grant 864.14.004 and European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant 865694: DiversiPHI. B.H. is partially supported by National Research, Development and Innovation Office – NKFIH, NN128309. S.S. acknowledges partial support from Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES), Mississippi State University and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, US Department of Agriculture, Hatch Project 1021494. E.M.A. was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC); this research was funded by the BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme Gut Microbes and Health BB/R012490/1 and its constituent projects BBS/E/F/000PR10353 and BBS/E/F/000PR10356. S.J. is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under project number 01KI1716 as part of the Research Network Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. FMZ is partially supported by CAPES (Finance Code 001). None of the work reported involved research on human participants or animals. All authors have contributed to this work and agreed to its publication. Except for Donald M. Dempsey, R. Curtis Hendrickson, Richard J. Orton and Donald B. Smith, the authors were members of the ICTV Executive Committee during the relevant period.
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PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - This article reports the changes to virus classification and taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2020. The entire ICTV was invited to vote on 206 taxonomic proposals approved by the ICTV Executive Committee at its meeting in July 2019, as well as on the proposed revision of the ICTV Statutes. All proposals and the revision of the Statutes were approved by an absolute majority of the ICTV voting membership. Of note, ICTV has approved a proposal that extends the previously established realm Riboviria to encompass nearly all RNA viruses and reverse-transcribing viruses, and approved three separate proposals to establish three realms for viruses with DNA genomes.
AB - This article reports the changes to virus classification and taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2020. The entire ICTV was invited to vote on 206 taxonomic proposals approved by the ICTV Executive Committee at its meeting in July 2019, as well as on the proposed revision of the ICTV Statutes. All proposals and the revision of the Statutes were approved by an absolute majority of the ICTV voting membership. Of note, ICTV has approved a proposal that extends the previously established realm Riboviria to encompass nearly all RNA viruses and reverse-transcribing viruses, and approved three separate proposals to establish three realms for viruses with DNA genomes.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00705-020-04752-x
DO - 10.1007/s00705-020-04752-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 32816125
AN - SCOPUS:85090302624
SN - 0304-8608
VL - 165
SP - 2737
EP - 2748
JO - Archives of virology
JF - Archives of virology
IS - 11
ER -