21.04.2018 | Virology Division News | Ausgabe 8/2018
Taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales: update 2018
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- Archives of Virology > Ausgabe 8/2018
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Handling Editor: Sead Sabanadzovic.
Michael J. Buchmeier, Rémi N. Charrel, Christopher S. Clegg, Juan Carlos de la Torre, Joseph L. DeRisi, Jean-Paul J. Gonzalez, S. Lukashevich, Clarence J. Peters, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Víctor Romanowski, Maria S. Salvato and Jens H. Kuhn were the members of the 2014–2017 International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Arenaviridae Study Group.
Piet Maes, Sergey V. Alkhovsky, Martin Beer, Thomas Briese, Charles H. Calisher, Rémi N. Charrel, Hideki Ebihara, Rakesh K. Jain, Amy J. Lambert, Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes, Alexander Plyusnin, Connie Schmaljohn, Robert B. Tesh, Shyi-Dong Yeh and Jens H. Kuhn were the members of the 2014–2017 ICTV Bunyaviridae Study Group.
Michele Digiaro, Toufic Elbeaino, Giovanni P. Martelli, Nicole Mielke-Ehret and Hans-Peter Mühlbach were the members of the 2014–2017 ICTV Emaravirus Study Group.
Il Ryong Choi, Anne-Lise Haenni, Miranda Gilda Jonson, Takahide Sasaya, Yukio Shirako, Tàiyún Wèi and Xueping Zhou were the members of the 2014–2017 ICTV Tenuivirus Study Group.
Stuart Siddell was the Chair of the 2014–2017 ICTV Animal dsRNA and ssRNA-Viruses Subcommittee.
Hélène Sanfaçon was the Chair of the 2014–2017 ICTV Plant Viruses Subcommittee.
Abstract
In 2018, the family Arenaviridae was expanded by inclusion of 1 new genus and 5 novel species. At the same time, the recently established order Bunyavirales was expanded by 3 species. This article presents the updated taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales as now accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) and summarizes additional taxonomic proposals that may affect the order in the near future.
