How to write virus, species, and other taxa names

The ICTV's recommendation for how to write virus, species and other taxa names. (Updated September 16, 2020)

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Elliot Lefkowitz over 3 years ago +1

Eduardo,

You are correct. The use of capitalization and italics as indicated in the article above, is meant for official, ICTV-approved taxon names. Proposed, but not yet approved taxon names should be…

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ogaalvarez 1 month ago

Dear members,

Is there a list of synonyms for the current virus species designation?

Thanks for your answer.

OA
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Elliot Lefkowitz 1 month ago in reply to ogaalvarez

One of our future goals is to provide a database of synonyms for virus names that are classified as members of a particular species. But other than the Virus Metadata Resource (https://ictv.global/vmr/) that provides a list of exemplar viruses for each species, we do not yet have a complete database of synonyms.
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ogaalvarez 1 month ago in reply to Elliot Lefkowitz

Thanks for your answer and all your valuable work.
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ogaalvarez 1 month ago in reply to Elliot Lefkowitz

Thanks for your answer and all your valuable work.
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