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Forum Post: RE: Date of Publication of 9th Report

Elliot Lefkowitz — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:21:00 GMT

The Ninth Report is now published! See the announcement on the home page of this site: talk.ictvonline.org/default.aspx.

Elliot

Forum Post: ICTV File-exchange directory ?

Gilmer — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:34:00 GMT

Hello,

I do not know where to post my request, therefore I use the "ICTV discussions" directory to share this with everyone. Contributions for 9th ICTV report should be uploaded on the server but I could not find the directory. If someone could highlight the path for me and others, this would be fine.

All the best

David

Group: Discussions

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:18:00 GMT

A place to discuss all aspects of viral taxonomy

Group: ICTV Discussions

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:32:00 GMT

Forum for public ICTV Discussions

Forum Post: Mike Mayo

Eric Carstens — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:09:00 GMT

I have received the very sad news that Mike Mayo died on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008. Mike, a plant virologist, was a long-standing supporter and diligent member of the ICTV Executive Committee, especially as Secretary. He retired from ICTV after the Executive Committee meeting in San Francisco in 2005. His quiet but thoughtful presence, his phenomenal grasp of the rules of virus taxonomy and nomenclature, and his dedication and extremely heavy but productive workload for ICTV has been both very much appreciated by many members of ICTV and sorely missed since his retirement. Mike was elected as a Life Member of the ICTV at the Plenary Session in Istanbul Turkey in August 2008.

Mike had retired to the Isle of Mull. He is survived by his wife Cath, and their two sons.

Forum Post: Re: Virus nomenclature: Three steps forward, a half step back

Elliot Lefkowitz — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:00:00 GMT

(Posted for Andy Ball, ICTV President)

Dr Hubalek,

Thank you for posting your opinion on this issue, and for the taxonomic proposal you submitted to the ICTV Executive Committee proposing Latinized binomial names for a large number of 'arbovirus' species. Your proposal (2007.136G.01: Proposal of latinized binomial nomenclature for arboviruses) was discussed at the last Executive Committee meeting, but it was rejected on the grounds that it massively violated the first principle of virus nomenclature: that of stability. If it is any comfort, another proposal to change the names of all virus species in the family Geminiviridae to conform to the 'Non-Latinized Binomial System' (NLBS) was also rejected by a vote of 15 to 1 at the same meeting and for the same reason.

The members of the ICTV Executive Committee overwhelmingly ascribe to the view that the disadvantages of renaming virus species on a large scale to conform to the NLBS or any other nomenclatural system greatly outweigh the potential advantages. While your proposal would have the merit of bringing virus species names into line with standard biological taxonomy, the disadvantages of changing the names of all arbovirus species (and, by extension, ALL virus species) far outweigh the benefit of uniformity.

With regards,

Andrew Ball
ICTV President

Forum Post: Re: searching for the proper name

Elliot Lefkowitz — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:15:00 GMT

Eric,

Ideally, ICTVdb should provide a listing of alternative names and synonyms. Once the new system comes online (perhaps this summer) these types of searches should be much easier. (One caveat is that I am unsure how complete the list of synonyms is within the ICTVdb database.) While we could decide to provide synonyms for the names in the Master Species List available from ictvonline.org, this would probably duplicate ICTVdb efforts and not be worth the time.

And for anyone interested, Dr. Mirski did find that NCBI provides the ability to search for alternative names from their taxonomy search page:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi (set the option for token search)

Elliot

Forum: General ICTV Discussions

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:36:00 GMT

A place for members to discuss any and all ICTV issues