Abolish the order Caudovirales and the families Myoviridae, Siphoviridae and Podoviridae (Caudoviricetes)

Evelien Adriaenssens, AM Kropinski, Dan Turner, Mart Krupovic, A Millard, BE Dutilh, HM Oksanen, C Lood, A Reyes, C Moraru, RK Aziz, Y Tong, J Barylski, M Łobocka, BL Sarkar, A Gillis, LJ van Zyl, SM Lehman, M Sullivan, J WittmanAI Kushkina, P Knezevic, JR Brister, RA Edwards, DI Kurtböke, MM Poranen, R Lavigne, AN Shkoporov, J Uchiyama, AI Moreno-Switt, F Enault

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Abstract

Here we propose to abolish the order Caudovirales keeping all underlying taxonomic ranks in the class Caudoviricetes. We also propose to abolish the morphology-based phage families Myoviridae, Siphoviridae and Podoviridae which have been repeatedly shown not to be monophyletic.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Subtitle of host publicationICTV
PublisherInternational Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Number of pages8
Edition2022
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Keywords

  • Caudovirales
  • Taxonomic
  • Caudoviricetes
  • Myoviridae
  • Siphoviridae
  • Podoviridae
  • monophyletic

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