Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022)

This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2022. The entire ICTV was invited to vote on 174 taxonomic proposals approved by the ICTV Executive Committee at its annual meeting in July 2021. All proposals were ratified by an absolute majority of the ICTV members. Of note, the Study Groups have started to implement the new rule for uniform virus species naming that became effective in 2021 and mandates the binomial 'Genus_name species_epithet' format with or without Latinization. As a result of this ratification, the names of 6,481 virus species (more than 60 percent of all species names currently recognized by…

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• UD
  U.S. Department of Agriculture
• HY
  Helsingin Yliopisto
• WT
  Wellcome Trust

  Award: WT108418AIA
• MA
  Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station
• DF
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Awards: Project-ID 390713860, ID 390713860, 390713860, EXC 2051
• AO
  Academy of Finland
• BF
  Biocenter Finland
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Award: HHSN272201800013C
• DF
  Directorate for Biological Sciences
• NI
  National Institute of Food and Agriculture

  Award: 1021494
• AR
  Agricultural Research Service

  Award: 58-6066-9-033
• CO
  College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Mississippi State University
• MR
  Medical Research Council

  Award: MC_UU_1201412
• BA
  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  Awards: BBS/E/F/000PR10356, BBS/E/F/000PR10353, BB/R012490/, BB/R012490/1 and its constituent projects BBS/E/F/000PR10353, BBS/E/F/000PR10356, BBS/E/F/000PR10353, R012490
• NI
  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  Awards: HHSN272201800013C, U24AI162625
• DO
  Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  Award: U24AI162625