Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: update from the ICTV bacterial and archaeal viruses subcommittee

Krupovic, Mart;Dutilh, Bas E.;Adriaenssens, Evelien M.;Wittmann, Johannes;Kuhn, Jens H.;et.al.
(2016) Archives of Virology — Vol. 161, n° 4, p. 1095-1099 (2016)

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  • Krupovic, Martorcid-logoUnit of Molecular Biology of the Gene in Extremophiles, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France
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  • Dutilh, Bas E.orcid-logoTheoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Adriaenssens, Evelien M.orcid-logoDepartment of Genetics, Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, Pretoria, 0028, South Africa
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  • Wittmann, JohannesLeibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstraße 7B, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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  • Gillis, Annikaorcid-logoUCLouvain
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  • Kuhn, Jens H.orcid-logoIntegrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA
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The prokaryotic virus community is represented on the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) by the Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. In 2008, the three caudoviral families Myoviridae, Podoviridae, and Siphoviridae included only 18 genera and 36 species. Under the able chairmanship of Rob Lavigne (KU Leuven, Belgium), major advances were made in the classification of prokaryotic viruses and the order Caudovirales was expanded dramatically, to reflect the genome-based relationships between phages. Today, the order includes six subfamilies, 80 genera, and 441 species. This year, additional changes in prokaryotic virus taxonomy have been brought forward under the new subcommittee chair, Andrew M. Kropinski (University of Guelph, Canada). These changes are:
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Krupovic, M., Dutilh, B. E., Adriaenssens, E. M., Wittmann, J., Vogensen, F. K., Sullivan, M. B., Rumnieks, J., Prangishvili, D., Lavigne, R., Kropinski, A. M., Klumpp, J., Gillis, A., Enault, F., Edwards, R. A., Duffy, S., Clokie, M. R. C., Barylski, J., Ackermann, H.-W., & Kuhn, J. H. (2016). Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: update from the ICTV bacterial and archaeal viruses subcommittee. Archives of Virology, 161(4), 1095-1099. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-015-2728-0 (Original work published 2016)