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Increasing the number of available ranks in virus taxonomy from five to ten and adopting the Baltimore classes as taxa at the basal rank

This opinion article makes a case for increasing the number of ranks used in virus taxonomy from the current five to ten (as are used to classify cellular life forms) and placing the Baltimore classes in the proposed basal rank of domain. These suggestions aim at initiating the process of accommodat...

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Autor principal: Gorbalenya, Alexander E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Vienna 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942981
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00705-018-3915-6