articleVirologyMar 8, 2010HYBRID OA

Classification of papillomaviruses (PVs) based on 189 PV types and proposal of taxonomic amendments

HBHans-Ulrich BernardRDRobert D. BurkZCZigui ChenKVKoenraad Van DoorslaerHZHarald zur Hausen

University of California, Irvine · Albert Einstein College of Medicine · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

We present an expansion of the classification of the family Papillomaviridae, which now contains 29 genera formed by 189 papillomavirus (PV) types isolated from humans (120 types), non-human mammals, birds and reptiles (64, 3 and 2 types, respectively). To accommodate the number of PV genera exceeding the Greek alphabet, the prefix "dyo" is used, continuing after the Omega-PVs with Dyodelta-PVs. The current set of human PVs is contained within five genera, whereas mammalian, avian and reptile PVs are contained within 20, 3 and 1 genera, respectively. We propose standardizations to the names of a number of animal PVs. As prerequisite for a coherent nomenclature of animal PVs, we propose founding a reference…

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  • Biology
  • Taxonomic rank
  • Biological classification
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Zoology
  • Alphabet
  • Genome
  • Genetics
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