TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes to virus taxonomy and the ICTV Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2023)
AU - Zerbini, Francisco Murilo
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 - Hendrickson, R. Curtis
AU - Junglen, Sandra
AU - Krupovic, Mart
AU - Kuhn, Jens H.
AU - Lambert, Amy J.
AU - Łobocka, Małgorzata
AU - Oksanen, Hanna M.
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
N1 - Funding Information:
F.M.Z. acknowledges financial support from Capes (Finance code 01), CNPq, and Fapemig. E.M.A. gratefully acknowledges funding by the U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC); this research was funded in part 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. B.E.D. is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant 865694: DiversiPHI, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2051 – Project-ID 390713860, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the context of an Alexander von Humboldt-Professorship funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This work was supported in part through Laulima Government Solutions, LLC, 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. 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. H.M.O. was supported by the University of Helsinki and Academy of Finland by funding for FINStruct and Instruct Centre FI, part of Biocenter Finland and Instruct – ERIC. D.L.R. is supported by the U.K. Medical Research Council (MC_UU_1201412). D.B.S. is supported by the Microbiology Society. S.S. acknowledges support from the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES), USDA-ARS project 58-6066-9-033 and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Hatch Project, under Accession Number 1021494. E.J.L, D.M.D. and R.C.H were supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U24AI162625. Except for Donald M. Dempsey, R. Curtis Hendrickson, and Donald B. Smith, the authors were members of the ICTV Executive Committee during the relevant period. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the US Department of Health and Human Services, or of the institutions and companies affiliated with the authors. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of their affiliates, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any author accepted manuscript version arising from this submission.
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PY - 2023/7
Y1 - 2023/7
N2 - This article reports changes to virus taxonomy and taxon nomenclature that were approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in April 2023. The entire ICTV membership was invited to vote on 174 taxonomic proposals that had been approved by the ICTV Executive Committee in July 2022, as well as a proposed revision of the ICTV Statutes. All proposals and the revised ICTV Statutes were approved by a majority of the voting membership. Of note, the ICTV continued the process of renaming existing species in accordance with the recently mandated binomial format and included gene transfer agents (GTAs) in the classification framework by classifying them as viriforms. In total, one class, seven orders, 31 families, 214 genera, and 858 species were created.
AB - This article reports changes to virus taxonomy and taxon nomenclature that were approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in April 2023. The entire ICTV membership was invited to vote on 174 taxonomic proposals that had been approved by the ICTV Executive Committee in July 2022, as well as a proposed revision of the ICTV Statutes. All proposals and the revised ICTV Statutes were approved by a majority of the voting membership. Of note, the ICTV continued the process of renaming existing species in accordance with the recently mandated binomial format and included gene transfer agents (GTAs) in the classification framework by classifying them as viriforms. In total, one class, seven orders, 31 families, 214 genera, and 858 species were created.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00705-023-05797-4
DO - 10.1007/s00705-023-05797-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 37296227
AN - SCOPUS:85163084043
SN - 0304-8608
VL - 168
JO - Archives of Virology
JF - Archives of Virology
IS - 7
M1 - 175
ER -
