Solving the species problem in viral taxonomy: recommendations on non-Latinized binomial species names and on abandoning attempts to assign metagenomic viral sequences to species taxa

Viruses do not have polythetic properties; species are polythetic classes and do not have any properties

(2018) Charles H. Calisher   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

A clash of ideas – the varying uses of the ‘species’ term in virology and their utility for classifying viruses in metagenomic datasets

(2018) Peter Simmonds   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

Evaluation of the genomic diversity of viruses infecting bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes using a common bioinformatic platform: steps towards a unified taxonomy

(2018) Pakorn Aiewsakun et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

The genomic underpinnings of eukaryotic virus taxonomy: creating a sequence-based framework for family-level virus classification

(2018) Pakorn Aiewsakun et al.   Microbiome

Viral species, viral genomes and HIV vaccine design: is the rational design of biological complexity a utopia?

(2018) Marc H. V. van Regenmortel   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Virus classification – where do you draw the line?

(2018) Peter Simmonds et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

(2017) Peter Simmonds et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons

(2015) Judith K. Brown et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

The Pangenome of theAnticarsia gemmatalisMultiple Nucleopolyhedrovirus (AgMNPV)

(2015) Anderson Fernandes de Brito et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Methods for virus classification and the challenge of incorporating metagenomic sequence data

(2015) P. Simmonds   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

Taxonomic reorganization of the family Bornaviridae

(2014) Jens H. Kuhn et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Recently agreed changes to the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature

(2013) M. J. Adams et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

A virocentric perspective on the evolution of life

(2013) Eugene V Koonin et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Virus species polemics: 14 senior virologists oppose a proposed change to the ICTV definition of virus species

(2012) Marc H. V. Van Regenmortel et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

A proposal to change existing virus species names to non-Latinized binomials

(2010) Marc H. V. Van Regenmortel et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Darwin’s solution to the species problem

(2009) Marc Ereshefsky   SYNTHESE