Taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales: update 2018

• Published in: Archives of virology Vol. 163; no. 8; pp. 2295 - 2310
• Main Authors: Maes, Piet, Alkhovsky, Sergey V., Bào, Yīmíng, Beer, Martin, Birkhead, Monica, Briese, Thomas, Buchmeier, Michael J., Calisher, Charles H., Charrel, Rémi N., Choi, Il Ryong, Clegg, Christopher S., de la Torre, Juan Carlos, Delwart, Eric, DeRisi, Joseph L., Di Bello, Patrick L., Di Serio, Francesco, Digiaro, Michele, Dolja, Valerian V., Drosten, Christian, Druciarek, Tobiasz Z., Du, Jiang, Ebihara, Hideki, Elbeaino, Toufic, Gergerich, Rose C., Gillis, Amethyst N., Gonzalez, Jean-Paul J., Haenni, Anne-Lise, Hepojoki, Jussi, Hetzel, Udo, Hồ, Thiện, Hóng, Ní, Jain, Rakesh K., Jansen van Vuren, Petrus, Jin, Qi, Jonson, Miranda Gilda, Junglen, Sandra, Keller, Karen E., Kemp, Alan, Kipar, Anja, Kondov, Nikola O., Koonin, Eugene V., Kormelink, Richard, Korzyukov, Yegor, Krupovic, Mart, Lambert, Amy J., Laney, Alma G., LeBreton, Matthew, Lukashevich, Igor S., Marklewitz, Marco, Markotter, Wanda, Martelli, Giovanni P., Martin, Robert R., Mielke-Ehret, Nicole, Mühlbach, Hans-Peter, Navarro, Beatriz, Ng, Terry Fei Fan, Nunes, Márcio Roberto Teixeira, Palacios, Gustavo, Pawęska, Janusz T., Peters, Clarence J., Plyusnin, Alexander, Radoshitzky, Sheli R., Romanowski, Víctor, Salmenperä, Pertteli, Salvato, Maria S., Sanfaçon, Hélène, Sasaya, Takahide, Schmaljohn, Connie, Schneider, Bradley S., Shirako, Yukio, Siddell, Stuart, Sironen, Tarja A., Stenglein, Mark D., Storm, Nadia, Sudini, Harikishan, Tesh, Robert B., Tzanetakis, Ioannis E., Uppala, Mangala, Vapalahti, Olli, Vasilakis, Nikos, Walker, Peter J., Wáng, Guópíng, Wáng, Lìpíng, Wáng, Yànxiăng, Wèi, Tàiyún, Wiley, Michael R., Wolf, Yuri I., Wolfe, Nathan D., Wú, Zhìqiáng, Xú, Wénxìng, Yang, Li, Yāng, Zuòkūn, Yeh, Shyi-Dong, Zhāng, Yǒng-Zhèn, Zhèng, Yàzhōu, Zhou, Xueping, Zhū, Chénxī, Zirkel, Florian, Kuhn, Jens H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01.08.2018; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Verlag
• Subjects: Animals; Arenaviridae; Arenaviridae - classification; Arenaviridae - genetics; Arenaviridae - isolation & purification; Arenaviridae Infections - veterinary; Arenaviridae Infections - virology; Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Bunyavirales; EPS; Humans; Infectious Diseases; Laboratorium voor Virologie; Laboratory of Virology; Life Sciences; Medical Microbiology; Microbiology and Parasitology; New genera; new genus; Phylogeny; Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy; Taxonomy; Virology; Virology Division News; viruses
• ISSN: 0304-8608; 1432-8798; 1432-8798
• DOI: 10.1007/s00705-018-3843-5

In 2018, the family Arenaviridae was expanded by inclusion of 1 new genus and 5 novel species. At the same time, the recently established order Bunyavirales was expanded by 3 species. This article presents the updated taxonomy of the family Arenaviridae and the order Bunyavirales as now accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) and summarizes additional taxonomic proposals that may affect the order in the near future.