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 International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)

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.

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

ICTV 2016 Taxonomy

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