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Peter Simmonds

@psimmond.bsky.social

Virologist, interested in virus evolution and innate immunity (and how they are linked). A member of the ICTV and striving to bring greater virus community engagement and understanding of virus taxonomy. https://www.utu.fi/en/people/peter-simmonds

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Peter Simmonds@psimmond.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Very excited to let you know about the ICTV's new publication format for taxonomic changes and developments. These are summaries of all of the ratified changes in virus classification in the previous year summarised in this overview article: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Virus taxonomy proposal summaries: a searchable and citable resource to disseminate virus taxonomy advances

Taxonomic classification of cellular organisms requires the publication of descriptions and proposed names of species and the deposition of specimens. Virus taxonomy is developed through a different s...

microbiologyresearch.org

Elliot Lefkowitz@elliot-bhm.bsky.social · last yr.

The promised ICTV paper on species names and how they differ from virus names is now published in mSphere: “Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged” doi.org/10.1128/msph...

Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged | mSphere

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV; https://ictv.global/) is a committee of the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiology Societies that provides oversight and...

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