Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee

Evelien Adriaenssens (1) , Matthew Sullivan (2, 3) , Petar Knezevic (4) , Leonardo J. van Zyl (5) , B. Sarkar (6) , Bas E Dutilh (7, 8) , Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini (9) , Małgorzata Łobocka (10) , Yigang Tong (11) , James Rodney Brister (12) , Andrea Moreno Switt (13) , Jochen Klumpp (14) , Ramy Karam Aziz (15) , Jakub Barylski (16) , Jumpei Uchiyama (17) , Rob Edwards (18) , Andrew Kropinski (19, 20) , Nicola Petty (21) , Martha R. C Clokie (22) , Alla Kushkina (23) , Vera Morozova (24) , Siobain Duffy (25) , Annika Gillis (26) , Janis Rumnieks (27) , İpek Kurtböke (28) , Nina Chanishvili (29) , Lawrence Goodridge (19) , Johannes Wittmann (30) , Rob Lavigne (31) , Ho Bin Jang (3) , David Prangishvili (32, 33) , François Enault (34) , Dann Turner (35) , Minna Poranen (36) , Hanna Oksanen (36) , Mart Krupovic (32)

1 Quadram Institute
2 CEGE - Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering [Columbus, USA]
3 OSU - Ohio State University [Columbus]
4 University of Novi Sad
5 IMBM - Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics [Cape Town, South Africa]
6 National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases
7 Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics [Utrecht, The Netherlands]
8 Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen]
9 UFV - Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa
10 Institute of Biochemistry & Biophysics
11 Beijing University of Chemical Technology
12 NLM - National Library of Medicine
13 UNAB - Universidad Andrés Bello [Santiago]
14 IFNH - Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health [Zurich, Suisse]
15 Cairo University
16 UAM - Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
17 Azabu University
18 SDSU - San Diego State University
19 University of Guelph
20 Ontario Veterinary College [Univ. Guelph, Canada]
21 iThree Institute
22 University of Leicester
23 D.K. Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology [Kyiv, Ukraine]
24 ICBFM SB RAS - Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine [Novosibirsk, Russia]
25 Rutgers University [Newark]
26 Imperial College London
27 Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre [Rīga]
28 USC - University of the Sunshine Coast
29 George Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology [Tbilisi, Georgia]
30 DSMZ - Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH / Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
31 BIOSYST - Department of Biosystems
32 Virologie des archées - Archaeal Virology
33 TSU - Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
34 LMGE - Laboratoire Microorganismes : Génome et Environnement
35 Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences [Bristol, UK]
36 Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences [Helsinki]

This article is a summary of the activities of the ICTV's Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee for the years 2018 and 2019. Highlights include the creation of a new order, 10 families, 22 subfamilies, 424 genera and 964 species. Some of our concerns about the ICTV's ability to adjust to and incorporate new DNA- and protein-based taxonomic tools are discussed.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

Evelien Adriaenssens, Matthew Sullivan, Petar Knezevic, Leonardo J. van Zyl, B. Sarkar, et al.. Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Archives of Virology, 2020, 165 (5), pp.1253-1260. ⟨10.1007/s00705-020-04577-8⟩. ⟨pasteur-02568508⟩