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Virus taxonomy and the role of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)

Published:2023-05-04 Issue:5 Volume:104 Page:
ISSN:0022-1317
Container-title:Journal of General Virology
language:en
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Author:

Siddell Stuart G.¹^ORCID,Smith Donald B.²^ORCID,Adriaenssens Evelien³^ORCID,Alfenas-Zerbini Poliane⁴^ORCID,Dutilh Bas E.⁵⁶^ORCID,Garcia Maria Laura⁷^ORCID,Junglen Sandra⁸^ORCID,Krupovic Mart⁹^ORCID,Kuhn Jens H.¹⁰^ORCID,Lambert Amy J.¹¹^ORCID,Lefkowitz Elliot J.¹²^ORCID,Łobocka Małgorzata¹³^ORCID,Mushegian Arcady R.¹⁴^ORCID,Oksanen Hanna M.¹⁵^ORCID,Robertson David L.¹⁶^ORCID,Rubino Luisa¹⁷^ORCID,Sabanadzovic Sead¹⁸^ORCID,Simmonds Peter²^ORCID,Suzuki Nobuhiro¹⁹^ORCID,Van Doorslaer Koenraad²⁰^ORCID,Vandamme Anne-Mieke²¹^ORCID,Varsani Arvind²²^ORCID,Zerbini F. Murilo²³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

2. Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

3. Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK

4. Departamento de Microbiologia/BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil

5. Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Science for Life, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

6. Institute of Biodiversity, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany

7. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular, CCT-La Plata, CONICET, UNLP, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

8. Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt-University Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

9. Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Archaeal Virology Unit, Paris, France

10. Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, USA

11. Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

12. Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, Alabama, USA

13. Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

14. Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia, USA

15. Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

16. MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, UK

17. Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, CNR, SS Bari, Bari, Italy

18. Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA

19. Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

20. School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Department of Immunobiology, BIO5 Institute, Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, Cancer Biology Graduate Interdisciplinary Program and University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, USA

21. KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Leuven, Belgium and Center for Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

22. The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, School of Life Sciences, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

23. Departamento de Fitopatologia/BIOAGRO, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil

Abstract

The taxonomy of viruses is developed and overseen by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which scrutinizes, approves and ratifies taxonomic proposals, and maintains a list of virus taxa with approved names (https://ictv.global). The ICTV has approximately 180 members who vote by simple majority. Taxon-specific Study Groups established by the ICTV have a combined membership of over 600 scientists from the wider virology community; they provide comprehensive expertise across the range of known viruses and are major contributors to the creation and evaluation of taxonomic proposals. Proposals can be submitted by anyone and will be considered by the ICTV irrespective of Study Group support. Thus, virus taxonomy is developed from within the virology community and realized by a democratic decision-making process. The ICTV upholds the distinction between a virus or replicating genetic element as a physical entity and the taxon category to which it is assigned. This is reflected by the nomenclature of the virus species taxon, which is now mandated by the ICTV to be in a binomial format (genus + species epithet) and is typographically distinct from the names of viruses. Classification of viruses below the rank of species (such as, genotypes or strains) is not within the remit of the ICTV. This article, authored by the ICTV Executive Committee, explains the principles of virus taxonomy and the organization, function, processes and resources of the ICTV, with the aim of encouraging greater understanding and interaction among the wider virology community.

Funder

European Research Council

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

European Union’s Horizon 2020

National Institutes of Health

Biocenter Finland

Medical Research Council

USDA-ARS

National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Publisher

Microbiology Society

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