Virus Taxonomy, Deluxe Edition with Online Version

Seventh Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-12-714181-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 1121 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm

Universal, unambiguous virus taxonomy (naming and categorization) is vital for distinguishing the thousands of viruses which have been isolated from humans, animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and archae. Before an official identification and classification system was devised, there was much confusion and duplication of viruses isolated in different labs around the world. The first internationally organized attempts to introduce some order in the bewildering variety of viruses took place at the International Congress of Microbiology held in Moscow in 1966. A committee, later called The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), was given the task of developing a single, universal taxonomic scheme for all the viruses.

This is the seventh report produced by the ICTV and builds on the accumulated taxonomic data of its predecessors and records the proceedings of the Committee since 1995, including decisions reached at the Tenth International Congress of Virology held in Jerusalem in 1996, and at mid-term meetings in 1997 and 1998. The information is essential for anyone working in the field of virology. Clinicians in diagnostic laboratories, researchers citing viruses in published papers, and virologists in the business industry all must have the most updated virus taxonomy to make the appropriate references. The number of recognized viruses continues to grow with the development of better detection techniques, and the rapid evolution of virus variants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Regenmortel, M. H. V. van

Fauquet, Claude M.

Bishop, Dave H. L.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Humangenetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.

Preface.

The Species Concept:

Introduction to the Species Concept in Virus Taxonomy.

The ICTVdB:

The Universal Virus Database of ICTV (ICTVdB).

The Viruses:

Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms.

Virus Diagrams.

Families and Genera of Viruses: The Nature of the Genome.

Families and Genera of Viruses: Size of the Genome.

Key to the Placement of Viruses in Taxa.

The Order of Presentation of the Viruses.

Description of Virus Taxa.

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses:

Members and Officers of the ICTV, 1996-1999.

Statutes of the ICTV, 1998.

International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature, 1998.

Indexes:

Index of Viruses.

Index of Taxa.

Über Autor(innen)

Claude Fauquet is a renowned plant virologist that has now embarked on plant biotechnology for the last 10 years. Dr. Fauquet has extensive experience in field virology and epidemiology, but also in molecular and experimental virology. He is mostly interested in tropical plant viruses and particularly in geminiviruses that are devastating tropical crops. In 1991, he became Director of ILTAB (International Laboratory for Agricultural Biotechnology), a joint French-American project aiming at transferring plant biotechnologies to less developing countries.