Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022)

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

1 University of Queensland [Brisbane]
2 University of Bristol [Bristol]
3 UAB - University of Alabama at Birmingham [ Birmingham]
4 National Science Foundation
5 Quadram Institute
6 UFV - Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa
7 Utrecht University [Utrecht]
8 IBBM - Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular [La Plata]
9 Humboldt University Of Berlin
10 Virologie des archées - Archaeal Virology
11 NIH - National Institutes of Health [Bethesda]
12 CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
13 PAN - Polish Academy of Sciences
14 Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
15 MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
16 IPSP - Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante [Torino, Italia]
17 Mississippi State University [Mississippi]
18 University of Oxford
19 Okayama University
20 University of Arizona
21 Rega Institute for Medical Research [Leuven, België]
22 NOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa = NOVA University Lisbon
23 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]

This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2022. The entire ICTV was invited to vote on 174 taxonomic proposals approved by the ICTV Executive Committee at its annual meeting in July 2021. All proposals were ratified by an absolute majority of the ICTV members. Of note, the Study Groups have started to implement the new rule for uniform virus species naming that became effective in 2021 and mandates the binomial 'Genus_name species_epithet' format with or without Latinization. As a result of this ratification, the names of 6,481 virus species (more than 60 percent of all species names currently recognized by ICTV) now follow this format.

Domains: Virology

Peter J Walker, Stuart G Siddell, Elliot J Lefkowitz, Arcady R Mushegian, Evelien M Adriaenssens, et al.. Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022). Archives of Virology, 2022, 167 (11), pp.2429-2440. ⟨10.1007/s00705-022-05516-5⟩. ⟨pasteur-03816110⟩