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Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World

Eugene V. Koonin, Valerian V. Dolja, Mart Krupovic, Arvind Varsani, Yuri I. Wolf, Natalya Yutin, F. Murilo Zerbini, Jens H. Kuhn
Eugene V. Koonin
aNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Valerian V. Dolja
bDepartment of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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Mart Krupovic
cInstitut Pasteur, Archaeal Virology Unit, Department of Microbiology, Paris, France
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Arvind Varsani
dThe Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
eStructural Biology Research Unit, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
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Natalya Yutin
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F. Murilo Zerbini
fDepartamento de Fitopatologia/Bioagro, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00061-19
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1128/MMBR.00061-19
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32132243

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  • Published online March 4, 2020.

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  1. Eugene V. Koonina,
  2. Valerian V. Doljab,
  3. Mart Krupovicc,
  4. Arvind Varsanid,e,
  5. Yuri I. Wolfa,
  6. Natalya Yutina,
  7. F. Murilo Zerbinif and
  8. Jens H. Kuhng
  1. aNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  2. bDepartment of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
  3. cInstitut Pasteur, Archaeal Virology Unit, Department of Microbiology, Paris, France
  4. dThe Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
  5. eStructural Biology Research Unit, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
  6. fDepartamento de Fitopatologia/Bioagro, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  7. gIntegrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, USA
  • Address correspondence to Eugene V. Koonin, koonin{at}ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, or Jens H. Kuhn, kuhnjens{at}mail.nih.gov.
  • Citation Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini FM, Kuhn JH. 2020. Global organization and proposed megataxonomy of the virus world. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 84:e00061-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/MMBR.00061-19.

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Eugene V. Koonin, Valerian V. Dolja, Mart Krupovic, Arvind Varsani, Yuri I. Wolf, Natalya Yutin, F. Murilo Zerbini, Jens H. Kuhn
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Eugene V. Koonin, Valerian V. Dolja, Mart Krupovic, Arvind Varsani, Yuri I. Wolf, Natalya Yutin, F. Murilo Zerbini, Jens H. Kuhn
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews Mar 2020, 84 (2) e00061-19; DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00061-19
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    • SUMMARY
    • INTRODUCTION
    • THE BALTIMORE CLASSES OF VIRUSES, VIRUS HALLMARK GENES, AND MAJOR EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS IN THE VIRUS WORLD
    • EVOLUTIONARY LINKS AMONG VIRUSES WITHIN AND ACROSS THE BALTIMORE CLASSES
    • PROPOSED MEGATAXONOMY OF VIRUSES
    • CONCLUSIONS
    • APPENDIX
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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