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Binomial Nomenclature

Binomial Nomenclature

These files describe various views that were discussed while considering switching to a binomial nomenclature for virus species names

File name File Size
-All_Binomial_Nomenclature.zip 3.66 MB
Adams-2017.pdf 172.79 KB
Advice_and_guidelines_to_SGs_on_the_implementation_of_binomial_species_names.pdf 156.3 KB
Agut-2002.pdf 58.38 KB
Binomial-nomenclature-a-long-view.pdf 407.02 KB
Binomial_Species_Names.pdf 237.76 KB
Duthil-2018.pdf 330.57 KB
Duthil-2019.pdf 330.49 KB
Naming-of-virus-species.pdf 607.47 KB
Postler-2017.pdf 344.45 KB
Requiring_Bionomial_Names.pdf 81 KB
Support-for-the-use-of-Binomial-Nomenclature-in-the-Taxonomy-of-Viruses.pdf 235.3 KB
VanRegenmortel-2001.pdf 29.99 KB
VanRegenmortel-2007.pdf 756.1 KB
VanRegenmortel-2010.pdf 162.74 KB
VanRegenmortel-2019.pdf 536.57 KB
VanRegenmortel-2020.pdf 523.9 KB
Virus_nomenclature-_Three_steps_forward,_a_half_step_back.pdf 143 KB

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