TY - JOUR
T1 - Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses
T2 - update from the ICTV bacterial and archaeal viruses subcommittee
AU - Krupovic, Mart
AU - Dutilh, Bas E.
AU - Adriaenssens, Evelien M.
AU - Wittmann, Johannes
AU - Vogensen, Finn K.
AU - Sullivan, Mathew B.
AU - Rumnieks, Janis
AU - Prangishvili, David
AU - Lavigne, Rob
AU - Kropinski, Andrew M.
AU - Klumpp, Jochen
AU - Gillis, Annika
AU - Enault, Francois
AU - Edwards, Rob A.
AU - Duffy, Siobain
AU - Clokie, Martha R.C.
AU - Barylski, Jakub
AU - Ackermann, Hans Wolfgang
AU - Kuhn, Jens H.
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - The prokaryotic virus community is represented on the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) by the Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. In 2008, the three caudoviral families Myoviridae, Podoviridae, and Siphoviridae included only 18 genera and 36 species. Under the able chairmanship of Rob Lavigne (KU Leuven, Belgium), major advances were made in the classification of prokaryotic viruses and the order Caudovirales was expanded dramatically, to reflect the genome-based relationships between phages. Today, the order includes six subfamilies, 80 genera, and 441 species. This year, additional changes in prokaryotic virus taxonomy have been brought forward under the new subcommittee chair, Andrew M. Kropinski (University of Guelph, Canada).
AB - The prokaryotic virus community is represented on the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) by the Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. In 2008, the three caudoviral families Myoviridae, Podoviridae, and Siphoviridae included only 18 genera and 36 species. Under the able chairmanship of Rob Lavigne (KU Leuven, Belgium), major advances were made in the classification of prokaryotic viruses and the order Caudovirales was expanded dramatically, to reflect the genome-based relationships between phages. Today, the order includes six subfamilies, 80 genera, and 441 species. This year, additional changes in prokaryotic virus taxonomy have been brought forward under the new subcommittee chair, Andrew M. Kropinski (University of Guelph, Canada).
KW - Taxonomy
KW - prokaryotic viruses
KW - ICTV
KW - Bacterial Viruses
KW - Archaeal Viruses
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84953298206&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00705-015-2728-0
DO - 10.1007/s00705-015-2728-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 26733293
AN - SCOPUS:84953298206
VL - 161
SP - 1095
EP - 1099
JO - Archives of Virology
JF - Archives of Virology
SN - 0304-8608
IS - 4
ER -