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Changes to virus taxonomy and the Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2020)

Peter Walker 1 Stuart Siddell 2 Elliot Lefkowitz 3 Arcady Mushegian 4, * Evelien Adriaenssens 5 Donald Dempsey 3 Bas Dutilh 6 Balázs Harrach 7 Robert Harrison 8 R Curtis Hendrickson 3 Sandra Junglen 9 Nick Knowles 8 Andrew Kropinski 10 Mart Krupovic 11 Jens Kuhn 12 Max Nibert 13 Richard Orton 14 Luisa Rubino 15 Sead Sabanadzovic 16 Peter Simmonds 17 Donald Smith 17 Arvind Varsani 18 Francisco Murilo Zerbini 18 Andrew J. Davison 14, 19
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1 University of Queensland [Brisbane]
2 University of Bristol [Bristol]
3 UAB - University of Alabama at Birmingham [ Birmingham]
4 MCB - Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences [Alexandria, USA]
NSF - National Science Foundation [Arlington]
5 Quadram Institute
6 Utrecht University [Utrecht]
7 MTA - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
8 USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
9 Humboldt University of Berlin
10 Institute for Animal Health, the Pirbright Institute
11 Virologie des archées - Archaeal Virology
Institut Pasteur [Paris]
12 NIH - National Institutes of Health [Bethesda]
13 HMS - Harvard Medical School [Boston]
14 MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
15 CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
16 Mississippi State University [Mississippi]
17 University of Oxford [Oxford]
18 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]
19 UFV - Universidade Federal de Vicosa
Abstract : This article reports the changes to virus classification and taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2020. The entire ICTV was invited to vote on 206 taxonomic proposals approved by the ICTV Executive Committee at its meeting in July 2019, as well as on the proposed revision of the ICTV Statutes. All proposals and the revision of the Statutes were approved by an absolute majority of the ICTV voting membership. Of note, ICTV has approved a proposal that extends the previously established realm Riboviria to encompass nearly all RNA viruses and reverse-transcribing viruses, and approved three separate proposals to establish three realms for viruses with DNA genomes.
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Peter Walker, Stuart Siddell, Elliot Lefkowitz, Arcady Mushegian, Evelien Adriaenssens, et al.. Changes to virus taxonomy and the Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2020). Archives of Virology, Springer Verlag, 2020, 165 (11), pp.2737-2748. ⟨10.1007/s00705-020-04752-x⟩. ⟨pasteur-03112960⟩

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