International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
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NEW! 2018b Taxonomy Release: MSL#34

Fifty Years of Virus Taxonomy

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  • Information: Members, FAQs, Code and Statutes, History, News, Newsletters, VDN articles.
  • Taxonomy: Current and historical ICTV taxonomic databases
  • Files: Taxonomy Proposals, Master Species Lists, Proposal templates, and other ICTV-related files.
  • Discussions: Discussions about the ICTV and virus taxonomy.
  • Study Groups: Information on virus families provided by ICTV Study Groups.
  • Meetings: Reports from ICTV-sponsored meetings addressing current problems in virus taxonomy.
  • ICTV Reports: Online versions of the current 10th and previous 9th Reports on Virus Taxonomy.

Items of Interest

New! Updated ICTV 2018b Taxonomy
The new 2018b ICTV taxonomy is now available online at http://ictvonline.org/virusTaxonomy.asp.
  • The new ICTV Master Species List 34, 2018b is available for download as an Excel Spreadsheet.
  • This new release contains taxonomic changes approved by the ICTV membership in February, 2019.
  • This release moves all RNA viruses under the new taxon, Riboviria, at the rank of Realm.
  • The release will be described in an upcoming Archives of Virology, Virology Division News article.
  • Official taxonomy proposals representing all of the taxonomic changes approved by the ICTV since the publication of the ICTV 8th Report can be found here:
    https://talk.ictvonline.org/files/ictv_official_taxonomy_updates_since_the_8th_report/. 

ICTV Report Available Online
The ICTV Report on Virus Taxonomy (also known as the Online (10th) Report) is available in a freely accessible format from this web site at http://ictv.global/report. Over a three-year cycle, ICTV Study Groups will update the information in the chapters of the 9th Report as well as produce chapters for newly created virus taxa.

Journal of General Virology:
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles
Summaries of the Online Report chapters are published in the Journal of General Virology, ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles section. These summaries are linked to the full Online Report chapters on the ICTV website and are indexed in PubMed.

How to write a virus name
A document detailing the ICTV's recommendation for how to write a virus name is available here.

Submitting Taxonomic Proposals

ICTV welcomes taxonomic proposals from any interested individual. To submit a proposal, download and complete the relevant parts of the taxonomic template (available at http://talk.ictvonline.org/files/folders/templates/default.aspx) and e-mail it to the appropriate subcommittee chair (Animal DNA Viruses and Retroviruses, Animal dsRNA and ssRNA- Viruses, Animal ssRNA+ Viruses, Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses, Fungal and Protist Viruses, or Plant viruses). Names and e-mail addresses can be found at http://www.ictvonline.org/executiveCommittee.asp.

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