Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee

• Author(s): Alfenas‐Zerbini, Poliane ; Adriaenssens, Evelien M. ; Wittmann, Johannes ; Kuhn, Jens H. ; Turner, Dann ; Sullivan, Matthew B. ; Dutilh, Bas E. ; Jang, Ho Bin ; Zyl, Leonardo J. van ; Klumpp, Jochen ; Lobocka, Malgorzata ; Switt, Andrea I. Moreno ; Rumnieks, Janis ; Edwards, Robert A. ; Uchiyama, Jumpei ; Petty, Nicola K. ; Kropinski, Andrew M. ; et al.
• Date: 2018
• Origin: Oasisbr
• Subject(s): ICTV bacterial; Taxonomy
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English

Description

The prokaryotic virus community is represented at the Inter- national Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) by the Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Since our last report [5], the committee composition has changed, and a large number of taxonomic proposals (TaxoProps) were submitted to the ICTV Executive Committee (EC) for approval