Soil viruses are highly abundant and have important roles in the regulation of host dynamics
and soil ecology. Climate change is resulting in unprecedented changes to soil ecosystems …

Virus taxonomy emerged as a discipline in the middle of the twentieth century. Traditionally,
classification by virus taxonomists has been focussed on the grouping of relatively closely …

Viruses are widely recognized as critical members of all microbiomes. Metagenomics
enables large-scale exploration of the global virosphere, progressively revealing the …

Whereas DNA viruses are known to be abundant, diverse, and commonly key ecosystem
players, RNA viruses are insufficiently studied outside disease settings. In this study, we …

Background Viruses are a significant player in many biosphere and human ecosystems, but
most signals remain “hidden” in metagenomic/metatranscriptomic sequence datasets due to …

Bacteriophage (phage) taxonomy has been in flux since its inception over four decades ago.
Genome sequencing has put pressure on the classification system and recent years have …

Millions of new viral sequences have been identified from metagenomes, but the quality and
completeness of these sequences vary considerably. Here we present CheckV, an …

High-throughput RNA sequencing offers broad opportunities to explore the Earth RNA
virome. Mining 5,150 diverse metatranscriptomes uncovered> 2.5 million RNA virus contigs …

Viruses are integral components of all ecosystems and microbiomes on Earth. Through
pervasive infections of their cellular hosts, viruses can reshape microbial community …

This article reports the changes to virus classification and taxonomy approved and ratified by
the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2020. The entire ICTV …