Archaeal Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Mart Krupovic, Diana P. Baquero, Ying Liu & Virginija Cvirkaite-Krupovic
Department of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Dann Turner
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Vera Morozova
Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Mike Dyall-Smith
Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Hanna M. Oksanen & Minna M. Poranen
Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Exploration, Adelaide, Australia
Rob Edwards
Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Bas E. Dutilh
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD, 20903, USA
Susan M. Lehman
Max Planck Tandem Group in Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Alejandro Reyes
Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
Matthew B. Sullivan
Department Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
Matthew B. Sullivan
School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Sagamihara, Japan
Jumpei Uchiyama
College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Jesca Nakavuma
Department of Molecular Virology, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Collegium Biologicum-Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznan, Poland
Jakub Barylski
Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
Mark J. Young
Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Shishen Du
Department of Microbiology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil
Poliane Alfenas-Zerbini
Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Alla Kushkina
Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Andrew M. Kropinski
Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Andrew M. Kropinski
University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia
Ipek Kurtböke
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
J. Rodney Brister
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Cédric Lood & Rob Lavigne
Emeritus ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata, India
B. L. Sarkar
Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
Tong Yigang
State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Li Huang
Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Johannes Wittmann
The Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, MIcrobiology and Virology, Tbilisi, Georgia
Nina Chanishvili
University of the Western Cape, Western Cape, South Africa
Leonardo J. van Zyl
Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Center, Riga, Latvia
Janis Rumnieks
Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Tomohiro Mochizuki
University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
Matti Jalasvuori
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University and Microbiology and Immunology Research Program, Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt, Cairo, 57357, Egypt
Ramy K. Aziz
Laboratory of Bacteriophage Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Małgorzata Łobocka
Biology Department and Center for Life in Extreme Environments, Portland State University, Portland, USA
Kenneth M. Stedman
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Andrey N. Shkoporov
Laboratory of Food and Environmental Microbiology, Earth and Life Institute, UC Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Annika Gillis
Microbial Immunity Group, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Xu Peng
Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LMGE, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
François Enault
Faculty of Sciences Department of Biology and Ecology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
Petar Knezevic
Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea
Sung-Keun Rhee
Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Cristina Moraru
Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Andrea I. Moreno Switt
Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Andrew Millard
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
David Prangishvili
Quadram Institute Biosciences, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK
Evelien M. Adriaenssens
All authors contributed to the creation or assessment of taxonomy proposals; M.K. and E.M.A wrote the manuscript with input from D.T. and A.M.K; all authors evaluated and approved the final version.