Implementation of Objective PASC-Derived Taxon Demarcation Criteria for Official Classification of Filoviruses

Implementation of Objective PASC-Derived Taxon Demarcation Criteria for Official Classification of Filoviruses

The mononegaviral family Filoviridae has eight members assigned to three genera and seven species. Until now, genus and species demarcation were based on arbitrarily chosen filovirus genome sequence divergence values (≈50% for genera, ≈30% for species) and arbitrarily chosen phenotypic virus or viri...

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Main Authors: Yīmíng Bào, Gaya K. Amarasinghe, Christopher F. Basler, Sina Bavari, Alexander Bukreyev, Kartik Chandran, Olga Dolnik, John M. Dye, Hideki Ebihara, Pierre Formenty, Roger Hewson, Gary P. Kobinger, Eric M. Leroy, Elke Mühlberger, Sergey V. Netesov, Jean L. Patterson, Janusz T. Paweska, Sophie J. Smither, Ayato Takada, Jonathan S. Towner, Viktor E. Volchkov, Victoria Wahl-Jensen, Jens H. Kuhn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-05-01
Series:Viruses
Subjects:
cuevavirus
Ebola
ebolavirus
Filoviridae
filovirus
marburgvirus
Mononegavirales
virus taxonomy
virus classification
ICTV
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/9/5/106

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