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. 2020 Dec;165(12):3023-3072.
doi: 10.1007/s00705-020-04731-2. Epub 2020 Sep 4.

2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

Jens H Kuhn  1 Scott Adkins  2 Daniela Alioto  3 Sergey V Alkhovsky  4 Gaya K Amarasinghe  5 Simon J Anthony  6   7 Tatjana Avšič-Županc  8 María A Ayllón  9   10 Justin Bahl  11 Anne Balkema-Buschmann  12 Matthew J Ballinger  13 Tomáš Bartonička  14 Christopher Basler  15 Sina Bavari  16 Martin Beer  17 Dennis A Bente  18 Éric Bergeron  19 Brian H Bird  20 Carol Blair  21 Kim R Blasdell  22 Steven B Bradfute  23 Rachel Breyta  24 Thomas Briese  25 Paul A Brown  26 Ursula J Buchholz  27 Michael J Buchmeier  28 Alexander Bukreyev  18   29 Felicity Burt  30 Nihal Buzkan  31 Charles H Calisher  32 Mengji Cao  33   34 Inmaculada Casas  35 John Chamberlain  36 Kartik Chandran  37 Rémi N Charrel  38 Biao Chen  39 Michela Chiumenti  40 Il-Ryong Choi  41 J Christopher S Clegg  42 Ian Crozier  43 John V da Graça  44 Elena Dal Bó  45 Alberto M R Dávila  46 Juan Carlos de la Torre  47 Xavier de Lamballerie  38 Rik L de Swart  48 Patrick L Di Bello  49 Nicholas Di Paola  50 Francesco Di Serio  40 Ralf G Dietzgen  51 Michele Digiaro  52 Valerian V Dolja  53 Olga Dolnik  54 Michael A Drebot  55 Jan Felix Drexler  56 Ralf Dürrwald  57 Lucie Dufkova  58 William G Dundon  59 W Paul Duprex  60 John M Dye  50 Andrew J Easton  61 Hideki Ebihara  62 Toufic Elbeaino  63 Koray Ergünay  64 Jorlan Fernandes  65 Anthony R Fooks  66 Pierre B H Formenty  67 Leonie F Forth  17 Ron A M Fouchier  48 Juliana Freitas-Astúa  68 Selma Gago-Zachert  69   70 George Fú Gāo  71 María Laura García  72 Adolfo García-Sastre  73 Aura R Garrison  50 Aiah Gbakima  74 Tracey Goldstein  75 Jean-Paul J Gonzalez  76   77 Anthony Griffiths  78 Martin H Groschup  12 Stephan Günther  79 Alexandro Guterres  65 Roy A Hall  80 John Hammond  81 Mohamed Hassan  82 Jussi Hepojoki  83   84 Satu Hepojoki  83   85 Udo Hetzel  86 Roger Hewson  87 Bernd Hoffmann  88 Seiji Hongo  89 Dirk Höper  88 Masayuki Horie  90 Holly R Hughes  91 Timothy H Hyndman  92 Amara Jambai  93 Rodrigo Jardim  46 Dàohóng Jiāng  94 Qi Jin  95   96 Gilda B Jonson  97 Sandra Junglen  56   98 Serpil Karadağ  99 Karen E Keller  100 Boris Klempa  101 Jonas Klingström  102 Gary Kobinger  103 Hideki Kondō  104 Eugene V Koonin  105 Mart Krupovic  106 Gael Kurath  107 Ivan V Kuzmin  108 Lies Laenen  109   110 Robert A Lamb  111   112 Amy J Lambert  91 Stanley L Langevin  113 Benhur Lee  114 Elba R S Lemos  65 Eric M Leroy  115 Dexin Li  71 Jiànróng Lǐ  116 Mifang Liang  117 Wénwén Liú  118 Yàn Liú  118 Igor S Lukashevich  119 Piet Maes  97 William Marciel de Souza  120 Marco Marklewitz  56   98 Sergio H Marshall  121 Giovanni P Martelli  122 Robert R Martin  123 Shin-Yi L Marzano  124 Sébastien Massart  125 John W McCauley  126 Nicole Mielke-Ehret  127 Angelantonio Minafra  40 Maria Minutolo  3 Ali Mirazimi  128 Hans-Peter Mühlbach  127 Elke Mühlberger  78 Rayapati Naidu  129 Tomohide Natsuaki  130 Beatriz Navarro  40 José A Navarro  131 Sergey V Netesov  132 Gabriele Neumann  133 Norbert Nowotny  134   135 Márcio R T Nunes  136 Are Nylund  137 Arnfinn L Økland  137 Renata C Oliveira  65 Gustavo Palacios  50 Vicente Pallas  138 Bernadett Pályi  139 Anna Papa  140 Colin R Parrish  141 Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa  142 Janusz T Pawęska  143 Susan Payne  144 Daniel R Pérez  145 Florian Pfaff  17 Sheli R Radoshitzky  50 Aziz-Ul Rahman  146 Pedro L Ramos-González  147 Renato O Resende  148 Carina A Reyes  149 Bertus K Rima  150 Víctor Romanowski  151 Gabriel Robles Luna  149 Paul Rota  152 Dennis Rubbenstroth  17 Jonathan A Runstadler  153 Daniel Ruzek  58   154 Sead Sabanadzovic  155 Jiří Salát  58   154 Amadou Alpha Sall  156 Maria S Salvato  157 Kamil Sarpkaya  158 Takahide Sasaya  159 Martin Schwemmle  160 Muhammad Z Shabbir  146 Xiǎohóng Shí  161 Zhènglì Shí  162 Yukio Shirako  163 Peter Simmonds  164 Jana Širmarová  58 Manuela Sironi  165 Sophie Smither  166 Teemu Smura  83 Jin-Won Song  167 Kirsten M Spann  168 Jessica R Spengler  19 Mark D Stenglein  169 David M Stone  170 Petra Straková  58 Ayato Takada  171 Robert B Tesh  29 Natalie J Thornburg  172 Keizō Tomonaga  173 Noël Tordo  174   175 Jonathan S Towner  19 Massimo Turina  176 Ioannis Tzanetakis  177 Rainer G Ulrich  178   179 Anna Maria Vaira  180 Bernadette van den Hoogen  181 Arvind Varsani  182   183 Nikos Vasilakis  29 Martin Verbeek  184 Victoria Wahl  185 Peter J Walker  186 Hui Wang  118 Jianwei Wang  187 Xifeng Wang  118 Lin-Fa Wang  188 Tàiyún Wèi  189 Heather Wells  190 Anna E Whitfield  191 John V Williams  60 Yuri I Wolf  105 Zhìqiáng Wú  192 Xin Yang  39 Xīnglóu Yáng  162 Xuejie Yu  193 Natalya Yutin  105 F Murilo Zerbini  194 Tong Zhang  39 Yong-Zhen Zhang  195   196 Guohui Zhou  39 Xueping Zhou  118
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2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

Jens H Kuhn et al. Arch Virol. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

In March 2020, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) ratification vote on newly proposed taxa, the phylum Negarnaviricota was amended and emended. At the genus rank, 20 new genera were added, two were deleted, one was moved, and three were renamed. At the species rank, 160 species were added, four were deleted, ten were moved and renamed, and 30 species were renamed. This article presents the updated taxonomy of Negarnaviricota as now accepted by the ICTV.

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