Journal Article
Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: update of taxonomy changes in 2021
Mart Krupovic; Dann Turner; Vera Morozova; Mike Dyall-Smith; Hanna M. Oksanen; Rob Edwards; Bas E. Dutilh; Susan M. Lehman; Alejandro Reyes; Diana P. Baquero; Matthew B. Sullivan; Jumpei Uchiyama; Jesca Nakavuma; Jakub Barylski; Mark J. Young; Shishen Du; Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini; Alla Kushkina; Andrew M. Kropinski; Ipek Kurtböke; J. Rodney Brister; Cédric Lood; B. L. Sarkar; Tong Yigang; Ying Liu; Li Huang; Johannes Wittmann; Nina Chanishvili; Leonardo J. van Zyl; Janis Rumnieks; Tomohiro Mochizuki; Matti Jalasvuori; Ramy K. Aziz; Małgorzata Łobocka; Kenneth M. Stedman; Andrey N. Shkoporov; Annika Gillis; Xu Peng; François Enault; Petar Knezevic; Rob Lavigne; Sung-Keun Rhee; Virginija Cvirkaite-Krupovic; Cristina Moraru; Andrea I. Moreno Switt; Minna M. Poranen; Andrew Millard; David Prangishvili; Evelien M. Adriaenssens
Archives of Virology · Vol. 166, Issue 11 · pp. 3239-3244 · 2021
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 ratified by vote in 2021. In particular, a new realm, three orders, 15 families, 31 subfamilies, 734 genera and 1845 species were newly created or redefined (moved/promoted).