Possibility and challenges of conversion of current virus species names to linnaean binomials

• Autor(a) principal: Murilo Zerbini, F.
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Postler, Thomas S., Clawson, Anna N., Marasinghe, G Aya K. A, Asler, C Hristopher F. B, Avari, Sbina B, Enkő, Mária B, Lasdell, Kim R. B, Briese, Thomas, Buchmeier, Michael J., Bukreyev, Alexander, Calisher, Charles H., Chandran, Kartik, Charrel, Rémi, Clegg, Christopher S., Collins, Peter L., Torre, Juan Carlos de la, et al.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw096; http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/19976
• topic: Arenaviridae; Binomials; ICTV; International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses; Mononegavirales; Virus nomenclature; Virus taxonomy

Botanical, mycological, zoological, and prokaryotic species names follow the Linnaean format, consisting of an italicized Latinized binomen with a capitalized genus name and a lower case species epithet (e.g., Homo sapiens). Virus species names, however, do not follow a uniform format, and, even when binomial, are not Linnaean in style. In this thought exercise, we attempted to convert all currently official names of species included in the virus family Arenaviridae and the virus order Mononegavirales to Linnaean binomials, and to identify and address associated challenges and concerns. Surprisingly, this endeavor was not as complicated or time-consuming as even the authors of this article expected when conceiving the experiment.