Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2017)

Michael J. Adams (1) , Elliot J. Lefkowitz (2) , Andrew M. Q. King (3) , Balázs Harrach (4) , Robert Harrison (5) , Nick Knowles (3) , Andrew Kropinski (6) , Mart Krupovic (7) , Jens Kuhn (8) , Arcady Mushegian (9) , Max Nibert (10) , Sead Sabanadzovic (11) , Hélène Sanfaçon (12) , Stuart Siddell (13) , Peter Simmonds (14) , Arvind Varsani (15) , Francisco Murilo Zerbini (16) , Alexander Gorbalenya (17, 18) , Andrew Davison (19)

1 ICTV - International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
2 UAB - University of Alabama at Birmingham [ Birmingham]
3 The Pirbright Institute
4 MTA - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
5 USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
6 University of Guelph
7 BMGE - Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles
8 NIAID-NIH - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda]
9 NSF - National Science Foundation [Arlington]
10 HMS - Harvard Medical School [Boston]
11 Mississippi State University [Mississippi]
12 AAFC - Agriculture and Agri-Food
13 University of Bristol [Bristol]
14 University of Oxford
15 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]
16 UFV - Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa
17 Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)
18 MSU - Lomonosov Moscow State University
19 University of Glasgow

This article lists the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2017.

Keywords: Suffix; Executive Committee; International Committee; International Code; Specific Proposal

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

Michael J. Adams, Elliot J. Lefkowitz, Andrew M. Q. King, Balázs Harrach, Robert Harrison, et al.. Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2017). Archives of Virology, 2017, 162 (8), pp.2505-2538. ⟨10.1007/s00705-017-3358-5⟩. ⟨pasteur-01977361⟩