TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022)
AU - Walker, Peter J.
AU - Siddell, Stuart G.
AU - Lefkowitz, Elliot J.
AU - Mushegian, Arcady R.
AU - Adriaenssens, Evelien M.
AU - Alfenas-Zerbini, Poliane
AU - Dempsey, Donald M.
AU - Dutilh, Bas E.
AU - García, María Laura
AU - Curtis Hendrickson, R.
AU - Junglen, Sandra
AU - Krupovic, Mart
AU - Kuhn, Jens H.
AU - Lambert, Amy J.
AU - Łobocka, Małgorzata
AU - Oksanen, Hanna M.
AU - Orton, Richard J.
AU - Robertson, David L.
AU - Rubino, Luisa
AU - Sabanadzovic, Sead
AU - Simmonds, Peter
AU - Smith, Donald B.
AU - Suzuki, Nobuhiro
AU - Van Doorslaer, Koenraad
AU - Vandamme, Anne Mieke
AU - Varsani, Arvind
AU - Zerbini, Francisco Murilo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1007/s00705-022-05516-5
DO - 10.1007/s00705-022-05516-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 35999326
AN - SCOPUS:85136919613
SN - 0304-8608
VL - 167
SP - 2429
EP - 2440
JO - Archives of virology
JF - Archives of virology
IS - 11
ER -