Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: Update of Taxonomy Changes in 2021

Authors

Mart Krupovic, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Dann Turner, University of the West of England, Bristol
Vera Morozova, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Mike L. Dyall-Smith, University of Melbourne
Hanna M. Oksanen, University of Helsinki
Rob Edwards, Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Exploration, Adelaide, Australia
Bas E. Dutilh, Utrecht University
Kenneth M. Stedman, Portland State UniversityFollow
multiple additional authors

Published In

Archives of Virology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2021

Subjects

Bacteria -- Identification

Abstract

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 ratifed by vote in 2021. In particular, a new realm, three orders, 15 families, 31 subfamilies, 734 genera and 1845 species were newly created or redefned (moved/promoted).

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Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-021-05205-9

DOI

10.1007/s00705-021-05205-9

Persistent Identifier

https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/bio_fac/371

Citation Details

Krupovic, M., Turner, D., Morozova, V., Dyall-Smith, M., Oksanen, H. M., Edwards, R., ... & Adriaenssens, E. M. (2021). Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: update of taxonomy changes in 2021. Archives of Virology, 166(11), 3239-3244.