TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes to virus taxonomy and the ICTV Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2023)
AU - Zerbini, Francisco Murilo
AU - Siddell, Stuart G
AU - Lefkowitz, Elliot J
AU - Mushegian, Arcady R
AU - Adriaenssens, Evelien M
AU - Alfenas-Zerbini, Poliane
AU - Dempsey, Donald M
AU - Dutilh, Bas E
AU - García, María Laura
AU - Hendrickson, R Curtis
AU - Junglen, Sandra
AU - Krupovic, Mart
AU - Kuhn, Jens H
AU - Lambert, Amy J
AU - Łobocka, Małgorzata
AU - Oksanen, Hanna M
AU - Robertson, David L
AU - Rubino, Luisa
AU - Sabanadzovic, Sead
AU - Simmonds, Peter
AU - Smith, Donald B
AU - Suzuki, Nobuhiro
AU - Van Doorslaer, Koenraad
AU - Vandamme, Anne-Mieke
AU - Varsani, Arvind
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/7
Y1 - 2023/7
N2 - This article reports changes to virus taxonomy and taxon nomenclature that were approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in April 2023. The entire ICTV membership was invited to vote on 174 taxonomic proposals that had been approved by the ICTV Executive Committee in July 2022, as well as a proposed revision of the ICTV Statutes. All proposals and the revised ICTV Statutes were approved by a majority of the voting membership. Of note, the ICTV continued the process of renaming existing species in accordance with the recently mandated binomial format and included gene transfer agents (GTAs) in the classification framework by classifying them as viriforms. In total, one class, seven orders, 31 families, 214 genera, and 858 species were created.
AB - This article reports changes to virus taxonomy and taxon nomenclature that were approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in April 2023. The entire ICTV membership was invited to vote on 174 taxonomic proposals that had been approved by the ICTV Executive Committee in July 2022, as well as a proposed revision of the ICTV Statutes. All proposals and the revised ICTV Statutes were approved by a majority of the voting membership. Of note, the ICTV continued the process of renaming existing species in accordance with the recently mandated binomial format and included gene transfer agents (GTAs) in the classification framework by classifying them as viriforms. In total, one class, seven orders, 31 families, 214 genera, and 858 species were created.
KW - Humans
KW - Viruses/genetics
KW - Committee Membership
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U2 - 10.1007/s00705-023-05797-4
DO - 10.1007/s00705-023-05797-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 37296227
SN - 0304-8608
VL - 168
JO - Archives of Virology
JF - Archives of Virology
IS - 7
M1 - 175
ER -