title: Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2016 update from the ICTV bacterial and archaeal viruses subcommittee.
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authors.affiliation: Unit of Molecular Biology of the Gene in Extremophiles, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, 75015, Paris, France.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
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authors.affiliation: L'Institut de biologie intégrative et des systems, Université Laval, Pavillon Charles-Eugène-Marchand, Quebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Virology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
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authors.affiliation: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, UK.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA.
authors.forename: Siobain
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authors.affiliation: Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.|Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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authors.affiliation: Departments of Computer Science and Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 92182, USA.
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authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement, Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France.|CNRS UMR 6023, LMGE, Aubière, France.
authors.forename: Francois
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Enault
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
authors.forename: Ho Bin
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authors.lastname: Jang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Jochen
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authors.affiliation: Departments of Food Science, Molecular and Cellular Biologyand PathobiologyUniversity of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd E, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. Phage.Canada@gmail.com.
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authors.lastname: Kropinski
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Gene Technology, KU Leuven, 3001, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Rob
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authors.lastname: Lavigne
authors.affiliation: Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Minna M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Poranen
authors.affiliation: Unit of Molecular Biology of the Gene in Extremophiles, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, 75015, Paris, France.
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authors.affiliation: Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Center, Riga, LV-1067, Latvia.
authors.forename: Janis
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authors.lastname: Rumnieks
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.affiliation: Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany.
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authors.lastname: Wittmann
authors.affiliation: Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.|Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Oksanen
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Food and Environmental Microbiology, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
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authors.affiliation: Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA.
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authors.lastname: Kuhn
mesh_terms: D014780:Viruses / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics