Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee

Evelien M Adriaenssens; Matthew B Sullivan; Petar Knezevic; Leonardo J van Zyl; B L Sarkar; Bas E Dutilh; Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini; Małgorzata Łobocka; Yigang Tong; James Rodney Brister; Andrea I Moreno Switt; Jochen Klumpp; Ramy Karam Aziz; Jakub Barylski; Jumpei Uchiyama; Rob A Edwards; Andrew M Kropinski; Nicola K Petty; Martha R J Clokie; Alla I Kushkina; Vera V Morozova; Siobain Duffy; Annika Gillis; Janis Rumnieks; İpek Kurtböke; Nina Chanishvili; Lawrence Goodridge; Johannes Wittmann; Rob Lavigne; Ho Bin Jang; David Prangishvili; Francois Enault; Dann Turner; Minna M Poranen; Hanna M Oksanen; Mart Krupovic

doi:10.1007/s00705-020-04577-8

Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee

Arch Virol. 2020 May;165(5):1253-1260. doi: 10.1007/s00705-020-04577-8.

Authors

Evelien M Adriaenssens¹, Matthew B Sullivan², Petar Knezevic³, Leonardo J van Zyl⁴, B L Sarkar⁵, Bas E Dutilh^{6

7}, Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini⁸, Małgorzata Łobocka⁹, Yigang Tong¹⁰, James Rodney Brister¹¹, Andrea I Moreno Switt¹², Jochen Klumpp¹³, Ramy Karam Aziz¹⁴, Jakub Barylski¹⁵, Jumpei Uchiyama¹⁶, Rob A Edwards^{17

18}, Andrew M Kropinski^{19

20}, Nicola K Petty²¹, Martha R J Clokie²², Alla I Kushkina²³, Vera V Morozova²⁴, Siobain Duffy²⁵, Annika Gillis²⁶, Janis Rumnieks²⁷, İpek Kurtböke²⁸, Nina Chanishvili²⁹, Lawrence Goodridge³⁰, Johannes Wittmann³¹, Rob Lavigne³², Ho Bin Jang³³, David Prangishvili^{34

35}, Francois Enault³⁶, Dann Turner³⁷, Minna M Poranen³⁸, Hanna M Oksanen³⁸, Mart Krupovic³⁴

Affiliations

¹ Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7UQ, UK.
² Department of Microbiology and Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
³ Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
⁴ Department of Biotechnology, Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics (IMBM), University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town, 7535, South Africa.
⁵ ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, C.I.T. Road, Scheme XM, Beleghata, Kolkata, 700010, India.
⁶ Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁷ Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁸ Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Instituto de Biotecnologia Aplicada à Agropecuária, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
⁹ Department of Microbial Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland.
¹⁰ College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China.
¹¹ National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA.
¹² Faculty of Life Sciences, Universidad Andres Bello, Republica 440, 8370146, Santiago, Chile.
¹³ Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Qasr El-Ainy St, Cairo, 11562, Egypt.
¹⁵ Department of Molecular Virology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
¹⁶ School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Fuchinobe 1-17-71, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0206, Japan.
¹⁷ Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 92182, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 92182, USA.
¹⁹ Food Science Department, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. Phage.Canada@gmail.com.
²⁰ Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road E, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. Phage.Canada@gmail.com.
²¹ The ithree Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia.
²² Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, UK.
²³ Department of Bacteriophage Molecular Genetics, D.K. Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, the NAS of Ukraine, 154 Acad.Zabolotny str, Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine.
²⁴ Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine (RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia.
²⁵ Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA.
²⁶ Section of Molecular Microbiology and Medical Research Council Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, London, SW72AZ, UK.
²⁷ Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Center, Ratsupites 1, Riga, 1067, Latvia.
²⁸ Genecology Research Centre, School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, QLD, 4558, Australia.
²⁹ G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, 3 Gotua Street, 0160, Tbilisi, Georgia.
³⁰ Food Science Department, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada.
³¹ Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, 38124, Brunswick, Germany.
³² Laboratory of Gene Technology, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 21 box 2462, 3001, Leuven, Belgium.
³³ Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
³⁴ Archaeal Virology Unit, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, 75015, Paris, France.
³⁵ Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, 0179, Tbilisi, Georgia.
³⁶ Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LMGE, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
³⁷ Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, Frenchay Campus, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK.
³⁸ Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

PMID: 32162068
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-020-04577-8

Abstract

This article is a summary of the activities of the ICTV's Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee for the years 2018 and 2019. Highlights include the creation of a new order, 10 families, 22 subfamilies, 424 genera and 964 species. Some of our concerns about the ICTV's ability to adjust to and incorporate new DNA- and protein-based taxonomic tools are discussed.

MeSH terms

Archaea / virology
Archaeal Viruses / classification*
Bacteria / virology
Bacteriophages / classification*
Classification / methods*

Abstract

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