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Research Project: Intervention Strategies to Control Endemic and New and Emerging Viral Diseases of Swine

Location: Virus and Prion Research

Title: Expansion of the rank structure of the family Arteriviridae and renaming its taxa

Author
item BRINTON, MARGO - Georgia State University
item GULYAEVA, ANASTASIA - Leiden University Medical Center
item UDENI, UDENI - University Of Kentucky
item DUNOWSKA, MAGDA - Massey University
item Faaberg, Kay
item LEUNG, FREDERICK - University Of Hong Kong
item NAUWYNCK, HANS - Ghent University
item SNIJDER, ERIC - Leiden University Medical Center
item STADEJEK, TOMAZ - Warsaw University Of Life Sciences
item GORBALENYA, ALEXANDER - Leiden University Medical Center

Submitted to: International Committee on Viral Taxonomy
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/18/2018
Publication Date: 3/1/2019
Citation: Brinton, M.A., Gulyaeva, A., Udeni, U.B., Dunowska, M., Faaberg, K.S., Leung, F.C., Nauwynck, H.J., Snijder, E.J., Stadejek, T., Gorbalenya, A.E. 2019. Expansion of the rank structure of the family Arteriviridae and renaming its taxa. International Committee on Viral Taxonomy. (MSL#35). https://talk.ictvonline.org/files/master-species-lists/m/msl/9601.

Interpretive Summary: The International Committee of the Taxonomy of Viruses oversees the organization and nomenclature of viruses for the entire world. With the ever expanding diversity of viruses, the Nidovirus study groups, researchers that study coronaviruses (e.g. porcine epidemic diarrhea virus) and arteriviruses (e.g. porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus), have revised the organization and naming of all members of the Nidovirus group using a mathematical model developed for viral genome comparison. The arterivirus study group has now organized the viral species into 11 different categories (genera) that should facilitate nomenclature of any newly discovered arteriviruses.

Technical Abstract: The submission to the Executive Committee of the International Committee of the Taxonomy of Viruses proposes the taxonomy be changed to include eleven genera of the arterivirus family, including the alphaarterivirus equine arteritis virus (EAV), the betaarteriviruses porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and rat arteriviruses (RAV), gammaarterivirus lactate dehydrogenase elevating virus (LDV), deltaarterivirus simian hemmorhagic fever virus (SHFV), a distinct african rat arterivirus (ARAV) in a separate genus named lamdaarterivirus, kappaarterivirus wobbly possum disease virus, deltaarterivirus simian hemmorhagic fever virus (SHFV) and the 5 distantly related genuses episonarterivirus, etaarterivirus, etaarterivirus, iotaarterivirus, thetaarterivirus and aetaarterivirus.