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Published in: Archives of Virology 9/2019

01-09-2019 | Virology Division News

Changes to virus taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2019)

Authors: Peter J. Walker, Stuart G. Siddell, Elliot J. Lefkowitz, Arcady R. Mushegian, Donald M. Dempsey, Bas E. Dutilh, Balázs Harrach, Robert L. Harrison, R. Curtis Hendrickson, Sandra Junglen, Nick J. Knowles, Andrew M. Kropinski, Mart Krupovic, Jens H. Kuhn, Max Nibert, Luisa Rubino, Sead Sabanadzovic, Peter Simmonds, Arvind Varsani, Francisco Murilo Zerbini, Andrew J. Davison

Published in: Archives of Virology | Issue 9/2019

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Abstract

This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in February 2019. Of note, in addition to seven new virus families, the ICTV has approved, by an absolute majority, the creation of the realm Riboviria, a likely monophyletic group encompassing all viruses with positive-strand, negative-strand and double-strand genomic RNA that use cognate RNA-directed RNA polymerases for replication.
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Metadata
Title
Changes to virus taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2019)
Authors
Peter J. Walker
Stuart G. Siddell
Elliot J. Lefkowitz
Arcady R. Mushegian
Donald M. Dempsey
Bas E. Dutilh
Balázs Harrach
Robert L. Harrison
R. Curtis Hendrickson
Sandra Junglen
Nick J. Knowles
Andrew M. Kropinski
Mart Krupovic
Jens H. Kuhn
Max Nibert
Luisa Rubino
Sead Sabanadzovic
Peter Simmonds
Arvind Varsani
Francisco Murilo Zerbini
Andrew J. Davison
Publication date
01-09-2019
Publisher
Springer Vienna
Published in
Archives of Virology / Issue 9/2019
Print ISSN: 0304-8608
Electronic ISSN: 1432-8798
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-019-04306-w

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