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ICNV 1966 to ICTV 1994: The contribution of veterinary virology

Fenner, F Sabine, M

1995

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  • Título:
    ICNV 1966 to ICTV 1994: The contribution of veterinary virology
  • Autor: Fenner, F
  • Sabine, M
  • Assuntos: Vertebrata
  • Notas: SourceType-Books-1
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  • Descrição: I suggested this title in a moment of enthusiasm prompted by reading Fred Murphy's introductory chapter to the Sixth Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), of which he had just sent me a xerox copy. He is a veterinary virologist, and an outstanding one, so why not celebrate the contribution of veterinary virology to viral classification and nomenclature? There may be many millions of species of viruses and untold billions of individual viruses. Yet the most comprehensive report on viruses of all kinds that has been produced, the Sixth Report of ICTV, allocates all the viruses that have been discovered so far to 71 families and 175 genera, with only a few hundred unassigned viruses. If we consider only the class in which we are interested, the viruses of vertebrates, all the viruses that we know fit into one or other of 24 families containing some 70 genera, with only a handful of "floaters". This is a remarkable result. For sure, new viruses that do not fit into established families are still being found, for example the circoviruses and the picobirnaviruses, but most vertebrate viruses discovered during the last decade or so, such as herpes virus 6, Lelystad virus, and the human, simian and feline immunodeficiency viruses, have been readily placed within established genera.
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1995
  • Idioma: Inglês
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