Differentiating between viruses and virus species by writing their names correctly

Francisco Murilo Zerbini (1) , Stuart G. Siddell (2) , Arcady R. Mushegian (3) , Peter J. Walker (4) , Elliot J. Lefkowitz (5) , Evelien M. Adriaenssens (6) , Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini (1) , Bas E. Dutilh (7, 8) , María Laura García (9) , Sandra Junglen (10) , Mart Krupovic (11) , Jens H. Kuhn (12) , Amy J. Lambert (13) , Małgorzata Łobocka (14) , Hanna M. Oksanen (15) , David L. Robertson (16) , Luisa Rubino (17) , Sead Sabanadzovic (18) , Peter Simmonds (19) , Nobuhiro Suzuki (20) , Koenraad van Doorslaer (21) , Anne-Mieke Vandamme (22, 23) , Arvind Varsani (24)

1 UFV - Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa
2 University of Bristol [Bristol]
3 NSF - National Science Foundation [Arlington]
4 University of Queensland [Brisbane]
5 UAB - University of Alabama at Birmingham [ Birmingham]
6 QIB - Quadram Institute Bioscience [Norwich, U.K.]
7 Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany]
8 Utrecht University [Utrecht]
9 IBBM - Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular [La Plata]
10 Charité - UniversitätsMedizin = Charité - University Hospital [Berlin]
11 Virologie des archées - Archaeal Virology
12 IRF-Frederick - Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick
13 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Fort Collins, Colorado, USA]
14 Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics
15 Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
16 MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
17 IPSP - Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante [Torino, Italia]
18 Mississippi State University [Mississippi]
19 University of Oxford
20 Okayama University
21 BIO5 Institute
22 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
23 NOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa = NOVA University Lisbon
24 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]

Following the results of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Ratification Vote held in March 2021, a standard two-part "binomial nomenclature" is now the norm for naming virus species. Adoption of the new nomenclature is still in its infancy; thus, it is timely to reiterate the distinction between "virus" and "virus species" and to provide guidelines for naming and writing them correctly.

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

Francisco Murilo Zerbini, Stuart G. Siddell, Arcady R. Mushegian, Peter J. Walker, Elliot J. Lefkowitz, et al.. Differentiating between viruses and virus species by writing their names correctly. Archives of Virology, 2022, 167 (4), pp.1231-1234. ⟨10.1007/s00705-021-05323-4⟩. ⟨pasteur-03698214⟩