Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

VIRAL GENOMES

Towards a genome-based virus taxonomy

Nature Microbiology volume 4, pages 1249–1250 (2019)Cite this article

Subjects

Complementary genomic frameworks for taxonomic classification of viruses infecting bacteria and archaea reveal evolutionary drivers, mosaicism and perspective on the genetic diversity of the tiniest, most abundant biological entities on Earth.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Fig. 1: Two innovative approaches for genome-based virus taxonomy.

References

  1. Paez-Espino, D. et al. Nature 536, 425–430 (2016).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Roux, S. et al. Nature 537, 689–693 (2016).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Simmonds, P. et al. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 15, 161–168 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Bin Jang, H. et al. Nat. Biotechnol. 37, 632–639 (2019).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Low, S. J., Džunková, M., Chaumeil, P.-A., Parks, D. H. & Hugenholtz, P. Nat. Microbiol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0448-z (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Bolduc, B. et al. PeerJ 5, e3243 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Parks, D. H. et al. Nat. Biotechnol. 36, 996–1004 (2018).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Mavrich, T. N. & Hatfull, G. F. Nat. Microbiol. 2, 17112 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Konstantinidis, K. T., Rossello-Mora, R. & Amann, R. ISME J. 11, 2399–2406 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Whitman, W. B., Sutcliffe, I. C. & Rossello-Mora, R. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Micr. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003419 (2019).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA

    Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh

Authors
  1. Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Eloe-Fadrosh, E.A. Towards a genome-based virus taxonomy. Nat Microbiol 4, 1249–1250 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0511-9

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0511-9

This article is cited by

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing Microbiology

Sign up for the Nature Briefing: Microbiology newsletter — what matters in microbiology research, free to your inbox weekly.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing: Microbiology