History of the taxon:

Etymology of the name:

Taxon: Steitzviridae Proposal: 2020.095B.R.Leviviricetes.zip  ICTV Report:  Reference:  

to honour the American biochemist Joan Argetsinger Steitz for her delineation of an initiation sequence that is central to modern-day ribosome profiling; the suffix -viridae for family taxa