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

doi:10.1007/s00705-021-05205-9

Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: update of taxonomy changes in 2021

Arch Virol. 2021 Nov;166(11):3239-3244. doi: 10.1007/s00705-021-05205-9.

Authors

Mart Krupovic¹, Dann Turner², Vera Morozova³, Mike Dyall-Smith⁴, Hanna M Oksanen⁵, Rob Edwards⁶, Bas E Dutilh⁷, Susan M Lehman⁸, Alejandro Reyes⁹, Diana P Baquero¹, Matthew B Sullivan^{10

11}, Jumpei Uchiyama¹², Jesca Nakavuma¹³, Jakub Barylski¹⁴, Mark J Young¹⁵, Shishen Du¹⁶, Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini¹⁷, Alla Kushkina¹⁸, Andrew M Kropinski^{19

20}, Ipek Kurtböke²¹, J Rodney Brister²², Cédric Lood²³, B L Sarkar²⁴, Tong Yigang²⁵, Ying Liu¹, Li Huang²⁶, Johannes Wittmann²⁷, Nina Chanishvili²⁸, Leonardo J van Zyl²⁹, Janis Rumnieks³⁰, Tomohiro Mochizuki³¹, Matti Jalasvuori³², Ramy K Aziz³³, Małgorzata Łobocka³⁴, Kenneth M Stedman³⁵, Andrey N Shkoporov³⁶, Annika Gillis³⁷, Xu Peng³⁸, François Enault³⁹, Petar Knezevic⁴⁰, Rob Lavigne²³, Sung-Keun Rhee⁴¹, Virginija Cvirkaite-Krupovic¹, Cristina Moraru⁴², Andrea I Moreno Switt⁴³, Minna M Poranen⁵, Andrew Millard⁴⁴, David Prangishvili⁴⁵, Evelien M Adriaenssens⁴⁶

Affiliations

¹ Archaeal Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
² Department of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
³ Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
⁴ Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
⁵ Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
⁶ Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Exploration, Adelaide, Australia.
⁷ Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
⁸ Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD, 20903, USA.
⁹ Max Planck Tandem Group in Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
¹⁰ Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
¹¹ Department Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
¹² School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Sagamihara, Japan.
¹³ College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁴ Department of Molecular Virology, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Collegium Biologicum-Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznan, Poland.
¹⁵ Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
¹⁷ Department of Microbiology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil.
¹⁸ Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
¹⁹ Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
²⁰ Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
²¹ University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia.
²² National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.
²³ KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
²⁴ Emeritus ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata, India.
²⁵ Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China.
²⁶ State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
²⁷ Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
²⁸ The Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, MIcrobiology and Virology, Tbilisi, Georgia.
²⁹ University of the Western Cape, Western Cape, South Africa.
³⁰ Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Center, Riga, Latvia.
³¹ Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
³² University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
³³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University and Microbiology and Immunology Research Program, Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt, Cairo, 57357, Egypt.
³⁴ Laboratory of Bacteriophage Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
³⁵ Biology Department and Center for Life in Extreme Environments, Portland State University, Portland, USA.
³⁶ University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
³⁷ Laboratory of Food and Environmental Microbiology, Earth and Life Institute, UC Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
³⁸ Microbial Immunity Group, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³⁹ Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LMGE, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
⁴⁰ Faculty of Sciences Department of Biology and Ecology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
⁴¹ Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea.
⁴² Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
⁴³ Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
⁴⁴ Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
⁴⁵ Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
⁴⁶ Quadram Institute Biosciences, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK. evelien.adriaenssens@quadram.ac.uk.

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).

MeSH terms

Archaea / virology
Archaeal Viruses / classification*
Bacteria / virology
Bacteriophages / classification*
Societies, Scientific / organization & administration*

Abstract

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