Dear Colleagues,
If you require citing a reference related to the taxonomy of iridoviruses, or more specifically ranaviruses, the “proper” choice is:
C Chinchar, VG, Hick, P, Ince IA, Jancovich JK, Marschang R, Qin Q, Subramaniam K, Waltzek TB, Whittington R, Williams T, Zhang QY, and the ICTV Report Consortium. ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile:
Iridoviridae. J. Gen. Virol. 98: 890 – 891, 2017. This two page report is a summary of the
Iridoviridae chapter within the current ICTV Report (the 10th) and is available at www.ictv.global/report/iridoviridae.
The full report is available online at the above address, but the JGV article provides a reference that can be cited. Clearly, there are additional references addressing the biology, ecology, pathology of iridoviruses…but this one address their taxonomy.
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