Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: update from the ICTV bacterial and archaeal viruses subcommittee

Affiliations

• ¹ Unit of Molecular Biology of the Gene in Extremophiles, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75015, Paris, France.
• ² Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ³ Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University, Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• ⁴ Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• ⁵ Department of Genetics, Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, Pretoria, 0028, South Africa.
• ⁶ Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstraße 7B, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany.
• ⁷ Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, 1958, Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
• ⁸ Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, 496 W 12th Ave, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
• ¹⁰ Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Center, Rātsupītes 1, Riga, LV, 1067, Latvia.
• ¹¹ Laboratory of Gene Technology, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 21-box 2462, 3001, Leuven, Belgium.
• ¹² Departments of Food Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Pathobiology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd E, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. Phage.Canada@gmail.com.
• ¹³ Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹⁴ Laboratory of Food and Environmental Microbiology, Université catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 2, L7.05.12, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
• ¹⁵ Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, Laboratoire "Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement", Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• ¹⁶ CNRS UMR 6023, LMGE, Aubière, France.
• ¹⁷ Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-7720, USA.
• ¹⁸ Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, 14 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA.
• ¹⁹ Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 9HN, UK.
• ²⁰ Department of Molecular Virology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznan, Poland.
• ²¹ L'Institut de biologie intégrative et des systems, Université Laval, Pavillon Charles-Eugène-Marchand, 1030, avenue de la Médecine, Quebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.
• ²² Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA.