Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee

Dann Turner (1) , Andrey N Shkoporov (2) , Cédric Lood (3) , Andrew D Millard (4) , Bas E Dutilh (5, 6) , Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini (7) , Leonardo J van Zyl (8) , Ramy K Aziz (9) , Hanna M Oksanen (10) , Minna M Poranen (10) , Andrew M Kropinski (11) , Jakub Barylski (12) , J Rodney Brister (13) , Nina Chanisvili (14) , Rob A Edwards (15) , François Enault (16) , Annika Gillis (17) , Petar Knezevic (18) , Mart Krupovic (19) , Ipek Kurtböke (20) , Alla Kushkina (21, 22) , Rob Lavigne (3) , Susan Lehman (23) , Malgorzata Lobocka (24) , Cristina Moraru (25) , Andrea Moreno Switt (26) , Vera Morozova (27) , Jesca Nakavuma (28) , Alejandro Reyes Muñoz (29) , Jānis Rūmnieks (30) , B L Sarkar (31) , Matthew B Sullivan (32) , Jumpei Uchiyama (33) , Johannes Wittmann (34) , Tong Yigang (35) , Evelien M Adriaenssens (36)

1 UWE Bristol - University of the West of England [Bristol]
2 UCC - University College Cork
3 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
4 University of Leicester
5 Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany]
6 Utrecht University [Utrecht]
7 UFV - Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa
8 UWC - University of the Western Cape
9 Cairo University
10 Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
11 University of Guelph
12 UAM - Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
13 NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information
14 George Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology [Tbilisi, Georgia]
15 Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Exploration [Adelaide, Australia]
16 LMGE - Laboratoire Microorganismes : Génome et Environnement
17 UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain
18 University of Novi Sad
19 Virologie des archées - Archaeal Virology
20 USC - University of the Sunshine Coast
21 D.K. Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology [Kyiv, Ukraine]
22 UG - University of Gdańsk
23 Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
24 IBB - Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics [Warsaw]
25 University of Oldenburg
26 UC - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
27 ICBFM SB RAS - Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine [Novosibirsk, Russia]
28 MAK - Makerere University [Kampala, Ouganda]
29 UNIANDES - Universidad de los Andes [Bogota]
30 BMC - Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Center
31 National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases
32 OSU - Ohio State University [Columbus]
33 Okayama University
34 DSMZ - Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH / Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
35 Beijing University of Chemical Technology
36 QIB - Quadram Institute Bioscience [Norwich, U.K.]

This article summarises the activities of the Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses for the period of March 2021−March 2022. We provide an overview of the new taxa proposed in 2021, approved by the Executive Committee, and ratified by vote in 2022. Significant changes to the taxonomy of bacterial viruses were introduced: the paraphyletic morphological families Podoviridae , Siphoviridae , and Myoviridae as well as the order Caudovirales were abolished, and a binomial system of nomenclature for species was established. In addition, one order, 22 families, 30 subfamilies, 321 genera, and 862 species were newly created, promoted, or moved.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Dann Turner, Andrey N Shkoporov, Cédric Lood, Andrew D Millard, Bas E Dutilh, et al.. Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee. Archives of Virology, 2023, 168 (2), pp.74. ⟨10.1007/s00705-022-05694-2⟩. ⟨pasteur-03953086⟩