Classify viruses — the gain is worth the pain

Additional changes to taxonomy ratified in a special vote by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (October 2018)

(2019) Stuart G. Siddell et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity

(2019) Stilianos Louca et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Taxon Richness of “Megaviridae” Exceeds those of Bacteria and Archaea in the Ocean

(2018) Tomoko Mihara et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Origins and Evolution of the Global RNA Virome

(2018) Yuri I. Wolf et al.   mBio

Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

(2017) Peter Simmonds et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities

(2015) J. R. Brum et al.   SCIENCE