The new scope of virus taxonomy: partitioning the virosphere into 15 hierarchical ranks

Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World

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The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2

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

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Classify viruses — the gain is worth the pain

(2019) Jens H. Kuhn et al.   NATURE

Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole

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Origin of viruses: primordial replicators recruiting capsids from hosts

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Analysis of Spounaviruses as a Case Study for the Overdue Reclassification of Tailed Phages

(2019) Jakub Barylski et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Expanding the RNA Virosphere by Unbiased Metagenomics

(2019) Yong-Zhen Zhang et al.   Annual Review of Virology

Changes to virus taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2019)

(2019) Peter J. Walker et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Evolution and ecology of plant viruses

(2019) Pierre Lefeuvre et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Multiple origins of prokaryotic and eukaryotic single-stranded DNA viruses from bacterial and archaeal plasmids

(2019) Darius Kazlauskas et al.   Nature Communications

Portal Protein: The Orchestrator of Capsid Assembly for the dsDNA Tailed Bacteriophages and Herpesviruses

(2019) Corynne L. Dedeo et al.   Annual Review of Virology

Increasing the number of available ranks in virus taxonomy from five to ten and adopting the Baltimore classes as taxa at the basal rank

(2018) Alexander E. Gorbalenya   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Structure of the herpes simplex virus 1 capsid with associated tegument protein complexes

(2018) Xinghong Dai et al.   SCIENCE

Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics

(2017) Peter Simmonds et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Implementation of Objective PASC-Derived Taxon Demarcation Criteria for Official Classification of Filoviruses

(2017) Yīmíng Bào et al.   Viruses-Basel

The Double-Stranded DNA Virosphere as a Modular Hierarchical Network of Gene Sharing

(2016) Jaime Iranzo et al.   mBio

Viruses as Winners in the Game of Life

(2016) Ana Georgina Cobián Güemes et al.   Annual Review of Virology

Measurably evolving pathogens in the genomic era

(2015) Roman Biek et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Polintons: a hotbed of eukaryotic virus, transposon and plasmid evolution

(2014) Mart Krupovic et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Structural similarities in DNA packaging and delivery apparatuses in Herpesvirus and dsDNA bacteriophages

(2014) Frazer J Rixon et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Toward Genetics-Based Virus Taxonomy: Comparative Analysis of a Genetics-Based Classification and the Taxonomy of Picornaviruses

(2012) C. Lauber et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Partitioning the Genetic Diversity of a Virus Family: Approach and Evaluation through a Case Study of Picornaviruses

(2012) C. Lauber et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Logical puzzles and scientific controversies: The nature of species, viruses and living organisms

(2009) Marc H.V. Van Regenmortel   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Rates of evolutionary change in viruses: patterns and determinants

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