Anna N. Clawson Gaya K. Amarasinghe Christopher F. Basler Sina Bavari Maria Benko Kim R. Blasdell Thomas Briese Michael J. Buchmeier Alexander Bukreyev Charles H. Calisher Kartik Chandran Remi Charrel Christopher S. Clegg Peter L. Collins Juan Carlos De la Torre Joseph L. DeRisi Ralf G. Dietzgen Olga Dolnik Ralf Durrwald John M. Dye Andrew J. Easton Sebastian Emonet Pierre Formenty Ron A. M. Fouchier Elodie Ghedin Jean-Paul Gonzalez Balazs Harrach Roger Hewson Masayuki Horie Daohong Jiang Gary P. Kobinger Hideki Kondo Andrew Kropinski Mart Krupovic Gael Kurath Robert A. Lamb Eric M. Leroy Igor S. Lukashevich Andrea Maisner Arcady Mushegian Sergey V. Netesov Norbert Nowotny Jean L. Patterson Susan L. Payne Janusz T. Paweska C.J. Peters Sheli Radoshitzky Bertus K. Rima Victor Romanowski Dennis Rubbenstroth Sead Sabanadzovic Helene Sanfacon Maria Salvato Martin Schwemmle Sophie J. Smither Mark Stenglein D.M. Stone Ayato Takada Robert B. Tesh Keizo Tomonaga N. Tordo Jonathan S. Towner Nikos Vasilakis Victor E. Volchkov Victoria Jensen Peter J. Walker Lin-Fa Wang Arvind Varsani Anna E. Whitfield Francisco Murilo Zerbini Jens H. Kuhn Postler Thomas 2017 <p><span>Botanical, mycological, zoological, and prokaryotic species names follow the Linnaean format, consisting of an italicized Latinized binomen with a capitalized genus name and a lower case species epithet (e.g.,&nbsp;</span><i>Homo sapiens</i><span>). Virus species names, however, do not follow a uniform format, and, even when binomial, are not Linnaean in style. In this thought exercise, we attempted to convert all currently official names of species included in the virus family<span>&nbsp;</span></span><i>Arenaviridae</i><span><span>&nbsp;</span>and the virus order<span>&nbsp;</span></span><i>Mononegavirales</i><span><span>&nbsp;</span>to Linnaean binomials, and to identify and address associated challenges and concerns. Surprisingly, this endeavor was not as complicated or time-consuming as even the authors of this article expected when conceiving the experiment.</span></p> application/pdf 10.1093/sysbio/syw096 en Society of Systematic Biologists Possibility and challenges of conversion of current virus species names to Linnaean binomials article