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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
immunology and microbiology
Virus nomenclature below the species level: A standardized nomenclature for laboratory animal-adapted strains and variants of viruses assigned to the family Filoviridae
Archives of Virology, Volume 158, No. 6, Year 2013
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Description
The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) organizes the classification of viruses into taxa, but is not responsible for the nomenclature for taxa members. International experts groups, such as the ICTV Study Groups, recommend the classification and naming of viruses and their strains, variants, and isolates. The ICTV Filoviridae Study Group has recently introduced an updated classification and nomenclature for filoviruses. Subsequently, and together with numerous other filovirus experts, a consistent nomenclature for their natural genetic variants and isolates was developed that aims at simplifying the retrieval of sequence data from electronic databases. This is a first important step toward a viral genome annotation standard as sought by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Here, this work is extended to include filoviruses obtained in the laboratory by artificial selection through passage in laboratory hosts. The previously developed template for natural filovirus genetic variant naming (
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Authors & Co-Authors
Kuhn, Jens H.
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Bào, Yiming
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Bavari, Sina
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Becker, Stephan
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Bradfute, Steven B.
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Brister, James Rodney
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Bukreyev, Alexander A.
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Caì, Yíngyún
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Chandran, Kartik
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Davey, Robert A.
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Dolnik, Olga
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Dye, John M.
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Enterlein, Sven
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Gonzalez, J. P.
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Formenty, Pierre Bernard Henri
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Freiberg, Alexander N.
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Hensley, Lisa E.
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Honko, Anna N.
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Ignatyev, Georgy M.
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Jährling, Peter B.
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Johnson, Karl M.
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Klenk, Hans Dieter
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Kobinger, Gary P.
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Lackemeyer, Matthew G.
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Leroy, Éric Maurice
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Lever, Mark S.
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Lofts, Loreen L.
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Mühlberger, Elke
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Netesov, Sergey V.
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Olinger, Gene G.
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Palacios, Gustavo F.
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Patterson, Jean L.
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Pawȩska, Janusz Tadeusz
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Pitt, Margaret Louise M.
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Radoshitzky, Sheli R.
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Ryabchikova, Elena I.
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Saphire, Erica Ollmann
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Shestopalov, Aleksandr M.
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Smither, Sophie J.
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Sullivan, Nancy J.
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Swanepoel, Robert
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Takada, Ayato
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Towner, Jonathan S.
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van der Groen, Guido S.R.
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Volchkov, Viktor E.
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Wahl, Victoria
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Warren, Travis K.
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Warfield, Kelly L.
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Weidmann, Manfred W.
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Nichol, Stuart T.
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Statistics
Citations: 61
Authors: 50
Affiliations: 30
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s00705-012-1594-2
ISSN:
03048608
Research Areas
Genetics And Genomics
Infectious Diseases
Study Locations
Guinea