Towards a genome-based virus taxonomy

Proposal for changes in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes: granting priority to Candidatus names

(2019) William B. Whitman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks

(2019) Ho Bin Jang et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Evaluation of a concatenated protein phylogeny for classification of tailed double-stranded DNA viruses belonging to the order Caudovirales

(2019) Soo Jen Low et al.   Nature Microbiology

A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life

(2018) Donovan H Parks et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy

(2017) Konstantinos T Konstantinidis et al.   ISME Journal

Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

(2017) Peter Simmonds et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

vConTACT: an iVirus tool to classify double-stranded DNA viruses that infect Archaea and Bacteria

(2017) Benjamin Bolduc et al.   PeerJ

Bacteriophage evolution differs by host, lifestyle and genome

(2017) Travis N. Mavrich et al.   Nature Microbiology

Ecogenomics and potential biogeochemical impacts of globally abundant ocean viruses

(2016) Simon Roux et al.   NATURE

Uncovering Earth’s virome

(2016) David Paez-Espino et al.   NATURE