The present outbreak of a coronavirus-associated acute respiratory disease called
coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is the third documented spillover of an animal …

High-throughput virome analyses with various fungi, from cultured or uncultured sources,
have led to the discovery of diverse viruses with unique genome structures and even neo …

This article summarises the activities of the Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee of the
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses for the period of March 2021− March 2022 …

The present outbreak of lower respiratory tract infections, including respiratory distress
syndrome, is the third spillover, in only two decades, of an animal coronavirus to humans …

This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International
Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2021. The entire ICTV was invited to …

The classification of life forms into a hierarchical system (taxonomy) and the application of
names to this hierarchy (nomenclature) is at a turning point in microbiology. The …

This article is a summary of the activities of the ICTV's Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses
Subcommittee for the years 2018 and 2019. Highlights include the creation of a new order …

Geminiviruses are plant-infecting, circular single-stranded DNA viruses that have a
geminate virion morphology. These viruses infect both cultivated and non-cultivated …

Anelloviruses are small negative-sense single-stranded DNA viruses with genomes ranging
in size from 1.6 to 3.9 kb. The family Anelloviridae comprised 14 genera before the present …

The taxonomy of viruses is developed and overseen by the International Committee on
Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which scrutinizes, approves and ratifies taxonomic proposals …