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

Mart Krupovic Dann Turner Vera V Morozova Michael Dyall-Smith Hanna M Oksanen Robert A Edwards Bas E Dutilh Susan M Lehman Alejandro Reyes Diana P Baquero Matthew B Sullivan Jumpei Uchiyama Jesca Lukanga NakavumaJakub BarylskiMark J Young Shi-Shen Du Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini Alla I Kushkina Andrew M Kropinski D İpek KurtbӧkeJ Rodney BristerCédric LoodB L SarkarYi-Gang TongYing LiuLi HuangJohannes WittmannNina ChanishviliLeonardo Joaquim van Zyl Janis Rumnieks Tomohiro Mochizuki Matti Jalasvuori Ramy Karam Aziz Małgorzata B Łobocka Kenneth M Stedman Andrey N Shkoporov Annika Gillis Peng Xu François Enault Petar Knezevic Rob Lavigne Sung-Keun Rhee Virginija Cvirkaite-Krupovic Cristina Moraru Andrea I Moreno SwittMinna M PoranenAndrew D MillardDavid PrangishviliEvelien M Adriaenssens

Published in: Archives of virology (2021)

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).

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