Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the ICTV: update of taxonomy changes in 2021
Mart Krupovìč, Dann Turner, Vera V. Morozova, Mike Dyall‐Smith, Hanna M. Oksanen, Robert A. Edwards, Bas E. Dutilh, Susan M. Lehman, Alejandro Reyes, Diana P. Baquero, Matthew B. Sullivan, Jumpei Uchiyama, Jesca Nakavuma, Jakub Barylski, Mark Young, Shishen Du, Poliane Alfenas‐Zerbini, Kushkina Ai, Andrew M. Kropinski, D. İpek Kurtböke, J. Rodney Brister, Cédric Lood, B L Sarkar, Yigang Tong, Ying Liu, Li Huang, Johannes Wittmann, Ніна Чанішвілі, Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl, J. Rumnieks, Tomohiro Mochizuki, Matti Jalasvuori, Ramy K. Aziz, Małgorzata Łobocka, Kenneth M. Stedman, Andrey N. Shkoporov, Annika Gillis, Xu Peng, François Enault, Petar Knežević, Rob Lavigne, Sung‐Keun Rhee, Virginija Cvirkaitė‐Krupovič, Cristina Moraru, Andrea I. Moreno‐Switt, Minna M. Poranen, Andrew Millard, David Prangishvili, Evelien M. Adriaenssens
Abstract
In this article, we - the Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee and the Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) - summarise the results of our activities for the period March 2020 - March 2021. We report the division of the former Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee in two separate Subcommittees, welcome new members, a new Subcommittee Chair and Vice Chair, and give an overview of the new taxa that were proposed in 2020, approved by the Executive Committee and ratified by vote in 2021. In particular, a new realm, three orders, 15 families, 31 subfamilies, 734 genera and 1845 species were newly created or redefined (moved/promoted).