Pegiviruses have been detected in a variety of mammalian hosts, with transmission of human pegiviruses occurring by sexual, parenteral and maternal routes. Invertebrate vectors have not been discovered.
The 5′-end of the genome possesses a type I cap (m7GpppAmp) not seen in viruses of the other genera. Most orthoflaviviruses are transmitted to vertebrate hosts by arthropod vectors, mosquitoes or ticks, in which they replicate actively. Some orthoflaviviruses transmit between rodents or bats without known arthropod vectors.
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A paper that discusses issues related to the taxonomic classification of viruses discovered through metagenomic sequencing has been published in Current Opinion in Virology:
Templates for submitting proposals are available from https://ictv.global/proposal_templates/. These 2021 templates MUST be used for all submissions. Please download all four files and read the Help file for detailed information on the submission process.
The deadline for proposal submission to Subcommittee Chairs is May 28, 2021.
The new 2020 ICTV taxonomy is now available online at https://ictv.global/taxonomy. The new Master Species List #36 is available for download as an Excel Spreadsheet.
Stuart Siddell (ICTV Vice President) and Andrew Davison (ICTV President) discuss the importance of virus taxonomy, classification, and naming in this International Science Council blog post.
2021 sees the 30th anniversary of the collaboration between Springer (now SpringerNature), which publishes Archives of Virology (ARVI), and the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (VD-IUMS). This formal collaboration was heralded in an editorial written by the then journal Editor-in-Chief Dr. Frederick A. Murphy and published in the March 1991 issue of volume 116, announcing that ARVI had become the “Official Journal of the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies”.
