Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: update of taxonomy changes in 2021

Mart Krupovic (1) , Dann Turner (2) , Vera Morozova (3) , Mike Dyall-Smith (4) , Hanna M. Oksanen (5) , Rob Edwards (6) , Bas E. Dutilh (7) , Susan M. Lehman (8) , Alejandro Reyes (9) , Diana P. Baquero (1) , Matthew B. Sullivan (10) , Jumpei Uchiyama (11) , Jesca Nakavuma (12) , Jakub Barylski (13) , Mark J. Young (14) , Shishen Du (15) , Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini (16) , Alla Kushkina (17) , Andrew M. Kropinski (18) , İpek Kurtböke (19) , J. Rodney Brister (20) , Cédric Lood (21) , B. L. Sarkar (22) , Tong Yigang (23) , Ying Liu (1) , Li Huang (24) , Johannes Wittmann (25) , Nina Chanishvili (26) , Leonardo J. van Zyl (27) , Janis Rumnieks (28) , Tomohiro Mochizuki (29) , Matti Jalasvuori (30) , Ramy K. Aziz (31) , Małgorzata Łobocka (32) , Kenneth M. Stedman (33) , Andrey N. Shkoporov (34) , Annika Gillis (35) , Xu Peng (36) , François Enault (37) , Petar Knezevic (38) , Rob Lavigne (21) , Sung-Keun Rhee (39) , Virginija Cvirkaite-Krupovic (1) , Cristina Moraru (40) , Andrea I. Moreno Switt (41) , Minna M. Poranen (5) , Andrew Millard (42) , David Prangishvili (43) , Evelien M. Adriaenssens (44)

1 Virologie des archées - Archaeal Virology
2 UWE Bristol - University of the West of England [Bristol]
3 ICBFM SB RAS - Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine [Novosibirsk, Russia]
4 University of Melbourne
5 Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
6 Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Exploration [Adelaide, Australia]
7 Utrecht University [Utrecht]
8 FDA - U.S. Food and Drug Administration
9 UNIANDES - Universidad de los Andes [Bogota]
10 OSU - Ohio State University [Columbus]
11 Azabu University
12 MAK - Makerere University [Kampala, Ouganda]
13 UAM - Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
14 MSU - Montana State University
15 Wuhan University [China]
16 UFV - Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa
17 NASU - National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
18 University of Guelph
19 USC - University of the Sunshine Coast
20 NIH - National Institutes of Health [Bethesda]
21 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
22 ICMR - Indian Council of Medical Research [New Dehli]
23 Beijing University of Chemical Technology
24 CAS - Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing]
25 DSMZ - Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH / Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
26 George Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology [Tbilisi, Georgia]
27 University of the Western Cape
28 Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre [Rīga]
29 TITECH - Tokyo Institute of Technology [Tokyo]
30 JYU - University of Jyväskylä
31 Cairo University
32 PAN - Polish Academy of Sciences
33 PSU - Portland State University [Portland]
34 UCC - University College Cork
35 UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain
36 UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet
37 LMGE - Laboratoire Microorganismes : Génome et Environnement
38 University of Novi Sad
39 Chungbuk National University
40 University of Oldenburg
41 UC - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
42 University of Leicester
43 TSU - Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
44 Quadram Institute

In this article, we – the Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and the Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) – summarise the results of our activities for the period March 2020 – March 2021. We report the division of the former Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee in two separate Subcommittees, welcome new members, a new Subcommittee Chair and Vice Chair, and give an overview of the new taxa that were proposed in 2020, approved by the Executive Committee and ratified by vote in 2021. In particular, a new realm, three orders, 15 families, 31 subfamilies, 734 genera and 1845 species were newly created or redefined (moved/promoted).

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

Mart Krupovic, Dann Turner, Vera Morozova, Mike Dyall-Smith, Hanna M. Oksanen, et al.. Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: update of taxonomy changes in 2021. Archives of Virology, 2021, 166 (11), pp.3239-3244. ⟨10.1007/s00705-021-05205-9⟩. ⟨pasteur-03369444⟩