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Title: Changes to virus taxonomy and the statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2020)

Author
item WALKER, PETER - University Of Queensland
item SIDDELL, STUART - University Of Bristol
item LEFKOWITZ, ELLIOT - University Of Alabama At Birmingham
item MUSHEGIAN, ARCADY - National Science Foundation (NSF)
item ADRIAENSSENS, EVELIEN - The Quadram Institute Bioscience
item DEMPSEY, DONALD - National Science Foundation (NSF)
item DUTILH, BAS - Utrecht University
item HARRACH, BALAZS - Hungarian Academy Of Sciences
item Harrison, Robert - Bob
item HENDRICKSON, R. CURTIS - University Of Alabama At Birmingham
item JUNGLEN, SANDRA - Institute Of Virology - Charité – Universitätsmedizin
item KNOWLES, NICK - The Pirbright Institute
item KROPINSKI, ANDREW - University Of Guelph
item KRUPOVIC, MART - Institut Pasteur - France
item KUHN, JENS - National Instiute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases (NIAID, NIH)
item NIBERT, MAX - Harvard Medical School
item RUBINO, LUISA - Istituto Di Protezione Sostenibile Delle Piante
item SABANADZOVIC, SAID - Mississippi State University
item SIMMONDS, PETER - University Of Oxford
item VARSANI, ARVIND - Arizona State University
item ZERBINI, MURILO - Universidade Federal De Vicosa
item DAVISON, ANDREW - University Of Glasgow

Submitted to: Archives of Virology
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/20/2020
Publication Date: 11/1/2020
Citation: Walker, P.J., Siddell, S.G., Lefkowitz, E.J., Mushegian, A.R., Adriaenssens, E., Dempsey, D.M., Dutilh, B.E., Harrach, B., Harrison, R.L., Hendrickson, R., Junglen, S., Knowles, N.J., Kropinski, A., Krupovic, M., Kuhn, J.H., Nibert, M., Rubino, L., Sabanadzovic, S., Simmonds, P., Varsani, A., Zerbini, M.F., Davison, A.J. 2020. Changes to virus taxonomy and the statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2020). Archives of Virology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-020-04752-x.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-020-04752-x

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy and taxon nomenclature 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 all RNA viruses and reverse-transcribing viruses, and three proposals establishing three realms for viruses with DNA genomes.