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Changes to virus taxonomy and to the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2021).

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  • 1. School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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    • Walker PJ 1
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  • 2. School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK.
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    • Siddell SG 2
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  • 3. Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), BBRB 276, 845 19th St South, Birmingham, AL, 35294-2170, USA.
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    • Lefkowitz EJ 3
    • Dempsey DM 3
    • Hendrickson RC 3
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  • 4. Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, National Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA, 22314, USA.
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    • Mushegian AR 4
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  • 5. Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK.
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    • Adriaenssens EM 5
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Archives of Virology, 01 Sep 2021, 166(9):2633-2648
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-021-05156-1 PMID: 34231026 

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This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2021. The entire ICTV was invited to vote on 290 taxonomic proposals approved by the ICTV Executive Committee at its meeting in October 2020, as well as on the proposed revision of the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature (ICVCN). All proposals and the revision were ratified by an absolute majority of the ICTV members. Of note, ICTV mandated a uniform rule for virus species naming, which will follow the binomial 'genus-species' format with or without Latinized species epithets. The Study Groups are requested to convert all previously established species names to the new format. ICTV has also abolished the notion of a type species, i.e., a species chosen to serve as a name-bearing type of a virus genus. The remit of ICTV has been clarified through an official definition of 'virus' and several other types of mobile genetic elements. The ICVCN and ICTV Statutes have been amended to reflect these changes.

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