List of geminivirus names

The virus list of species and tentative species provided here is based on the one published in the VIIth Report of the ICTV [5]. The purpose of this list is only to supply a unique set of names and abbreviations in accordance with the “species - strain [isolate]” system proposed. However, when a new geminivirus sequence clearly showed that a particular virus isolate was in fact a strain of a previously described species, we changed the name to a more logical one (for example Bhendi yellow vein mosaic virus has been changed to Okra yellow vein Faisalabad virus isolate India; OYVFV-[Ind]). Similarly when the sequence was clearly indicating a new virus species we upgraded it to the species status (for example Rhynchosia golden mosaic virus; RhGMV). An official and approved taxonomic list of geminiviruses will be provided at a later date, by the Geminiviridae Study-Group of the ICTV, after using the species demarcation criteria for geminiviruses [10] to indicate the species. Standard virus name abbreviation and Genbank accession numbers follow the virus name. Names in parenthesis underneath virus names indicate synonyms or previously used names.

We provide also a phylogenetic tree based on the available complete A component nucleotide sequences of 171 geminiviruses, aligned using a clustal algorithm (Figure 1). The names of the viruses are correlated to the taxonomic status of the viruses and their respective position in the tree.