TY - JOUR
T1 - Classification of papillomaviruses (PVs) based on 189 PV types and proposal of taxonomic amendments
AU - Bernard, Hans Ulrich
AU - Burk, Robert D.
AU - Chen, Zigui
AU - van Doorslaer, Koenraad
AU - Hausen, Harald zur
AU - de Villiers, Ethel Michele
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper is written by four authors that form the PV Study Group of the ICTV appointed in 2009 (H.U.B., R.D.B., H.z.H., and E.M.deV.) and two colleagues (Z.C. and K.v.D). We thank Ignacio G. Bravo and Benjamin Smith for stimulating discussions. RDB is support in part by Public Health Service awards CA78527 from the National Cancer Institute (RDB) and center grants to the Einstein Cancer Research Center and the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR).
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - We present an expansion of the classification of the family Papillomaviridae, which now contains 29 genera formed by 189 papillomavirus (PV) types isolated from humans (120 types), non-human mammals, birds and reptiles (64, 3 and 2 types, respectively). To accommodate the number of PV genera exceeding the Greek alphabet, the prefix "dyo" is used, continuing after the Omega-PVs with Dyodelta-PVs. The current set of human PVs is contained within five genera, whereas mammalian, avian and reptile PVs are contained within 20, 3 and 1 genera, respectively. We propose standardizations to the names of a number of animal PVs. As prerequisite for a coherent nomenclature of animal PVs, we propose founding a reference center for animal PVs. We discuss that based on emerging species concepts derived from genome sequences, PV types could be promoted to the taxonomic level of species, but we do not recommend implementing this change at the current time.
AB - We present an expansion of the classification of the family Papillomaviridae, which now contains 29 genera formed by 189 papillomavirus (PV) types isolated from humans (120 types), non-human mammals, birds and reptiles (64, 3 and 2 types, respectively). To accommodate the number of PV genera exceeding the Greek alphabet, the prefix "dyo" is used, continuing after the Omega-PVs with Dyodelta-PVs. The current set of human PVs is contained within five genera, whereas mammalian, avian and reptile PVs are contained within 20, 3 and 1 genera, respectively. We propose standardizations to the names of a number of animal PVs. As prerequisite for a coherent nomenclature of animal PVs, we propose founding a reference center for animal PVs. We discuss that based on emerging species concepts derived from genome sequences, PV types could be promoted to the taxonomic level of species, but we do not recommend implementing this change at the current time.
KW - Family
KW - Genus
KW - Nomenclature
KW - Papillomavirus
KW - Reference center
KW - Species
KW - Strain
KW - Taxonomy
KW - Type
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U2 - 10.1016/j.virol.2010.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.virol.2010.02.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 20206957
AN - SCOPUS:77950938389
SN - 0042-6822
VL - 401
SP - 70
EP - 79
JO - Virology
JF - Virology
IS - 1
ER -