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International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses: ICTV

News

  • Coronaviridae

    New Report Chapter:
    Coronaviridae

    ICTV Report on the ssRNA (+) virus family Coronaviridae

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  • Nominations

    ICTV Executive Committee Nominations

    Nominations for 2023 ICTV Officers and Elected Members

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  • Newsletter

    ICTV Newsletter:
    Number 19, 2022

    The ICTV has released Newsletter Number 19, 2022

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  • Universal virus taxonomy

    Four principles to establish a universal virus taxonomy

    The future development and expansion of virus taxonomy 

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  • Sphaerolipoviridae

    New Report Chapter:
    Sphaerolipoviridae

    ICTV Report on the dsDNA virus family  Sphaerolipoviridae

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  • Yadokariviridae

    New Report Chapter:
    Yadokariviridae

    ICTV Report on the (+) RNA virus family Yadokariviridae

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  • VMR

    New Release of the
    Virus Metadata Resource

    New Virus Metadata Resource:
    Version 21; November 22, 2022

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  • Hadakaviridae

    New Report Chapter:
    Hadakaviridae

    ICTV Report on the (+) RNA virus family Hadakaviridae    

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Virus Taxonomy

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Excel spreadsheet containing a list of all current virus species

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Information on exemplar
viruses and sequences

VMR

ICTV Report

Information on virus taxa and their member viruses

Report Chapters

Taxonomy Profiles

Journal of General Virology: ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles

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Proposal Submission

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taxonomic proposals

Proposal Templates

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ICTV gratefully acknowledges financial support from the American Society for Virology, Microbiology Society, the Virology Division of IUMS, Wellcome, the Australasian Virology Society, the Société Française de Virologie (SFV), and the Finnish Biochemical, Biophysical, and Microbiological Society / Societas Biochemica, Biophysica et Microbiologica Fenniae. ICTV also very gratefully acknowledges the support it receives from all its Executive Committee members, Study Group members and National Representatives who volunteer a huge amount of their time and financial support to ensure that ICTV continues to function for the good of virology. We would also like to thank Donald Dempsey and Curtis Hendrickson from the University of Alabama at Birmingham for their work on the development of the web site and taxonomy database.

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