V Gregory Chinchar*
Iridoviridae Study Group Chair
Department of Microbiology
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson
MS, 39216
USA
E-mail: vchinchar@umc.edu
Paul Hick
Sidney School of Veterinary Science
Faculty of Science
University of Sydney
Camden
NSW 2570
Australia
E-mail: paul.hick@sydney.edu.au
Jie Huang
Qingdao Key Laboratory of Mariculture Epidemiology and Biosecurity
Qingdao 266071, China
E-mail: huangjie@ysfri.ac.cn
Ikbal Agah Ince
Department of Medical Microbiology
School of Medicine
Acibadem University
34752 Atasehir
Istanbul
Turkey
E-mail: Ikbal.agah.ince@gmail.com
James Jancovich
Department of Biological Sciences
California State University
San Marcos
CA 92096
USA
E-mail: jjancovich@csusm.edu
Rachel Marschang
Laboklin GmbH & Co. KG
Steubenstrasse 4
97688 Bad Kissingen
Germany
E-mail: rachel.marschang@googlemail.com
Qiwei Qin
Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology
South China Sea Institute of Oceanology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guangzhou
China
E-mail: qinqw@scsio.ac.cn
Kuttichantran Subramaniam
Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville
FL, 32611
USA
E-mail: ksubramaniam@ufl.edu
Thomas Waltzek
Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville
FL, 32611
USA
E-mail: tomwaltzek@gmail.com
Richard Whittington
Sydney School of Veterinary Science and School of Life and Environmental Science
Faculty of Science,
University of Sydney
Camden
NSW 2570
Australia
E-mail: Richard.whittington@sydney.edu.au
Trevor Williams
Instituto de Ecologia AC
Xalapa
Veracruz 91073
Mexico
E-mail: trevor.inecol@gmail.com
QiYa Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology
Institute of Hydrobiology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wuhan
Hubei
China
E-mail: lgui@zhou.edu.cn
* to whom correspondence should be addressed
The chapter in the Ninth ICTV Report, which served as the template for this chapter, was contributed by Jancovich, J.K., Chinchar, V.G., Hyatt, A., Miyazaki, T., Williams, T. and Zhang, Q.Y.