Create four new genera (Quwivirus, Patagivirus, Bossavirus, Manticavirus) including five new species and two previously unassigned species, and one new species in the genus Varicellovirus (Herpesvirales: Herpesviridae)

Gatherer, Derek and Benko, Maria and Brandt, Curtis and Bryant, Neil and Neves, Carlos and Dastjerdi, Akbar and Depledge, Daniel P and Doszpoly, Andor and Gompels, Ursula and Hartley, Carol and Inoue, Naoki and Jarosinski, Keith and Kaul, Rajeev and Lacoste, Vincent and Norberg, Peter and Origgi, Francesco and Orton, Richard and Pellett, Philip and Schmid, D Scott and Spatz, Stephen and Stewart, James and Szpara, Moriah and Trimpert, Jakob and Vaz, Paola and Waltzek, Thomas B and Davison, Andrew J. (2020) Create four new genera (Quwivirus, Patagivirus, Bossavirus, Manticavirus) including five new species and two previously unassigned species, and one new species in the genus Varicellovirus (Herpesvirales: Herpesviridae). Working Paper. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.

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Abstract

These proposals are made on the basis of a previous phylogenetic analysis of a concatenation of the encoded amino acid sequences of six well-conserved viral genes. They involve creating species Cervid alphaherpesvirus 3 in genus Varicellovirus in subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, species Miniopterid betaherpesvirus 1 in new genus Quwivirus in subfamily Betaherpesvirinae, species Vespertilionid gammaherpesvirus 3 in new genus Patagivirus in subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, species Delphinid gammaherpesvirus 1 in new genus Bossavirus in subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, and species Phascolarctid gammaherpesvirus 1 and Vombatid gammaherpesvirus 1 in new genus Manticavirus in subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae. They also involve moving existing unassigned species Caviid betaherpesvirus 2 and Tupaiid betaherpesvirus 1 into new genus Quwivirus.