Pending Reorganization of Hantaviridae to Include Only Completely Sequenced Viruses: A Call to Action

Funding Agencies|Laulima Government Solutions, LLC; National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) [HHSN272201800013C]
The official classification of newly discovered or long-known unassigned viruses by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) requires the deposition of coding-complete or -near-complete virus genome sequences in GenBank to fulfill a requirement of the taxonomic proposal (TaxoProp) process. However, this requirement is fairly new; thus, genomic sequence information is fragmented or absent for many already-classified viruses. As a result, taxon-wide modern phylogenetic analyses are often challenging, if not impossible. This problem is particularly eminent among viruses with segmented genomes, such as bunyavirals, which were frequently classified solely based on single-segment sequence information. To solve this issue for one bunyaviral family, Hantaviridae, we call on the community to provide additional sequence information for incompletely sequenced classified viruses by mid-June 2023. Such sequence information may be sufficient to prevent their possible declassification during the ongoing efforts to establish a coherent, consistent, and evolution-based hantavirid taxonomy.

NATURVETENSKAP Biologi Genetik hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Biological Sciences Genetics hsv//eng
actinovirus; agnathovirus; Bunyavirales; Hantaviridae; hantavirid; hantavirus; loanvirus; mobatvirus; orthohantavirus; thottimvirus

Bradfute, Steven B.Univ New Mexico, NM 87131 USA (author)
Calisher, Charles H.Colorado State Univ, CO 80523 USA (author)
Klempa, BorisSlovak Acad Sci, Slovakia (author)
Klingström, JonasKarolinska Institutet,Linköpings universitet,Avdelningen för molekylär medicin och virologi,Medicinska fakulteten(Swepub:liu)jonkl80 (author)
Laenen, LiesKatholieke Univ Leuven, Belgium; Univ Hosp Leuven, Belgium (author)
Palacios, GustavoIcahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, NY 10029 USA; Icahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, NY 10029 USA (author)
Schmaljohn, Connie S.NIAID, MD 21702 USA (author)
Tischler, Nicole D.Fdn Ciencia & Vida, Chile; Univ San Sebastian, Chile (author)
Maes, PietKatholieke Univ Leuven, Belgium (author)
NIAID, MD 21702 USAUniv New Mexico, NM 87131 USA (creator_code:org_t)

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