Virus taxonomy--San Diego 1998.
Virus taxonomy--San Diego 1998.
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DOI:
10.1007/s007050050389
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发表时间:
1998-01-01
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2.7
通讯作者:
Pringle, C R
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作者:
Pringle, C R
The 27th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) was held at the Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California, on 7th and 8th March of this year. The principle business was review of new taxonomic proposals submitted by the individual Study Groups of the ICTV. The taxonomic proposals listed below are those that were approved by the Executive Committee of the ICTV. These new proposals, subject to formal ratification by postal ballot of the national membership of the ICTV, will be included in the up-dated Universal Taxonomy of Viruses, which will be published as the 7th Report of the ICTV. The Executive Committee plans to have the 7th Report available for sale at the 11th International Congress of Virology, which will take place in Sydney, Australia, in August 1999. The Executive Committee aims to replace vernacular names by international names throughout the Universal Taxonomy, but in certain taxa the designation “…-like viruses” remains. In some cases this is indicative of rejection by the Executive Committee of an international name proposed by a Study Group, or vice versa. In other cases it represents continuing indecision about the definitive criteria for designation of species. A major change in practice was approved at the San Diego Meeting, which is illustrated in the list of new taxonomic proposals that follows. In future the names of all virus species will be italicised and the initial letter will be capitalised. The names of viruses having the status of tentative species only will not be given in italics, but will have the initial letter capitalised. Transition to italicisation will signal recognition of full species status. The Executive Committee of the ICTV has approved the following new taxonomic proposals: Proposals that were rejected or referred back are not included in the list.