Changes to virus taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2019)

Peter J Walker (1) , Stuart Siddell (2) , Elliot J Lefkowitz (3) , Arcady Mushegian (4) , Donald Dempsey (3) , Bas E Dutilh (5) , Balázs Harrach (6) , Robert Harrison (7) , R. Curtis Hendrickson (3) , Sandra Junglen (8) , Nick Knowles (9) , Andrew Kropinski (10) , M Krupovic (11) , Jens H. Kuhn (12) , Max Nibert (13) , Luisa Rubino (14) , Sead Sabanadzovic (15) , Peter Simmonds (16) , Arvind Varsani (17) , Francisco Murilo Zerbini (18) , Andrew J. Davison (19)

1 School of Biological Sciences [Brisbane]
2 CellModMed - School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine [Bristol]
3 UAB - University of Alabama at Birmingham [ Birmingham]
4 NSF - National Science Foundation [Arlington]
5 CMBI - Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics [Nijmegen, the Netherlands]
6 AOTI - Institute for Veterinary Medical Research [Budapest]
7 Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory [Beltsville, USA]
8 Charité - UniversitätsMedizin = Charité - University Hospital [Berlin]
9 The Pirbright Institute
10 University of Guelph
11 Département de Microbiologie - Department of Microbiology
12 IRF-Frederick - Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick
13 Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology
14 CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
15 Mississippi State University [Mississippi]
16 University of Oxford
17 Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics [ASU, Tempe]
18 UFV - Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa
19 MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in February 2019. Of note, in addition to seven new virus families, the ICTV has approved, by an absolute majority, the creation of the realm Riboviria, a likely monophyletic group encompassing all viruses with positive-strand, negative-strand and double-strand genomic RNA that use cognate RNA-directed RNA polymerases for replication.

Domains: Virology

Peter J Walker, Stuart Siddell, Elliot J Lefkowitz, Arcady Mushegian, Donald Dempsey, et al.. Changes to virus taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2019). Archives of Virology, 2019, 164 (9), pp.2417-2429. ⟨10.1007/s00705-019-04306-w⟩. ⟨pasteur-02557201⟩