Taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales: update 2018

Piet Maes (1) , Sergey V. Alkhovsky (2) , Yīmíng Bào (3) , Martin Beer (4) , Monica Birkhead (5) , Thomas Briese (6) , Guópíng Wáng (3) , Lìpíng Wáng (7) , Yànxiăng Wáng , Tàiyún Wèi (8, 9) , Michael R. Wiley , Yuri I. Wolf , Nathan D. Wolfe (10) , Zhìqiáng Wú (11) , Wénxìng Xú , Li Yang , Zuòkūn Yāng , Shyi-Dong Yeh , Yǒng-Zhèn Zhāng , Yàzhōu Zhèng , Xueping Zhou , Chénxī Zhū , Michael J. Buchmeier , Charles H. Calisher , Rémi N. Charrel (12, 13, 14) , Il Ryong Choi (15) , Christopher S. Clegg , Juan Carlos de La Torre , Eric Delwart (16, 17) , Joseph L. Derisi , Patrick L. Di Bello , Francesco Di Serio , Michele Digiaro , Valerian V. Dolja , Christian Drosten (18) , Peter J. Walker , Tobiasz Z. Druciarek , Jiang Du , Hideki Ebihara (19) , Toufic Elbeaino , Rose C. Gergerich , Amethyst N. Gillis , Jean-Paul J. Gonzalez , Anne-Lise Haenni (20) , Jussi Hepojoki , Udo Hetzel , Thiện Hồ , Ní Hóng , Rakesh K. Jain , Petrus Jansen Van Vuren , Qi Jin , Miranda Gilda Jonson , Sandra Junglen , Karen E. Keller , Alan Kemp (21) , Anja Kipar , Nikola O. Kondov , Eugene V. Koonin (22) , Richard Kormelink (23) , Yegor Korzyukov , Mart Krupovic (24) , Amy J. Lambert , Alma G. Laney , Matthew Lebreton (25) , Igor S. Lukashevich , Marco Marklewitz , Wanda Markotter (26) , Giovanni P. Martelli , Robert R. Martin , Nicole Mielke-Ehret , Hans-Peter Mühlbach , Beatriz Navarro , Terry Fei Fan Ng , Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes (27) , Gustavo Palacios (28) , Janusz T. Pawęska , Clarence J. Peters , Alexander Plyusnin (29) , Sheli R. Radoshitzky , Víctor Romanowski (30) , Pertteli Salmenperä , Maria S. Salvato , Hélène Sanfaçon (31) , Takahide Sasaya (32) , Connie Schmaljohn , Bradley S. Schneider , Yukio Shirako , Stuart Siddell , Tarja A. Sironen , Mark D. Stenglein , Nadia Storm , Harikishan Sudini , Robert B. Tesh (33) , Ioannis E. Tzanetakis , Mangala Uppala , Olli Vapalahti (29) , Nikos Vasilakis (33) , Florian Zirkel (18) , Jens H. Kuhn (34)

1 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2 Gamaleya Research Center
3 CAS - Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing]
4 FLI - Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
5 NICD - National Institute for Communicable Diseases [Johannesburg]
6 Columbia University [New York]
7 Synopsys Inc.
8 Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre
9 Department of Biology
10 Metabiota Inc. [San Francisco]
11 ECJU - East China Jiaotong University
12 UVE - Unité des Virus Emergents
13 IHU Marseille - Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection
14 AMU - Aix Marseille Université
15 IRRI - International Rice Research Institute [Philippines]
16 Blood Systems Research Institute
17 Department of Laboratory Medicine [San Francisco]
18 University of Bonn
19 Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research [Hamilton]
20 IJM (UMR_7592) - Institut Jacques Monod
21 SOES-NOC - School of Ocean and Earth Sciences
22 NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information
23 Laboratory of Virology [Wageningen]
24 BMGE - Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles
25 Mosaic
26 University of Pretoria [South Africa]
27 Department of Arbovirology and Hemorrhagic Fevers
28 USAMRIID - U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
29 Department of Virology [Helsinki]
30 IBBM - Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular [La Plata]
31 Pacific Agri-Food Research Center
32 Divison of Plant Protection, National Agricultural Research Center
33 UTMB - The University of Texas Medical Branch
34 NIAID-NIH - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda]

In 2018, the family Arenaviridae was expanded by inclusion of 1 new genus and 5 novel species. At the same time, the recently established order Bunyavirales was expanded by 3 species. This article presents the updated taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales as now accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) and summarizes additional taxonomic proposals that may affect the order in the near future.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Biodiversity; Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

Piet Maes, Sergey V. Alkhovsky, Yīmíng Bào, Martin Beer, Monica Birkhead, et al.. Taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales: update 2018. Archives of Virology, 2018, 163 (8), pp.2295-2310. ⟨10.1007/s00705-018-3843-5⟩. ⟨pasteur-01977333⟩