ICTV
Proper noun
Meaning
ICTV
Initialism of International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
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The ICTV Board of Directors is supposed to consist of five people but since the late 1990's there have only been four.
The new family Spiraviridae (from Latin spira, "a coil") has been created by the ICTV to accommodate ACV.
Recently classified viruses In the 9th edition of the viral taxonomy of the ICTV (published 2011) the Bombyx mori densovirus type 2 was placed in a new family—the Bidnaviridae on the basis of its genome structure and replication mechanism.
A new family Bidensoviridae has been proposed for this group but this proposal has not been ratified by the ICTV to date.
In general most of the proposed relationships are tentative and have not yet been used by the ICTV in their classification.
Phages are classified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) according to morphology and nucleic acid.