Adriaenssens, Evelien M.Wittmann, JohannesKuhn, Jens H.van Zyl, Leonardo J.2018-01-312018-01-312018Adriaenssens, E.M. et al. (2018). Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Archives of Virology, Virology Division News.0304-8608http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00705-018-3723-zhttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3438The prokaryotic virus community is represented at the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) by the Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee. Since our last report [5], the committee composition has changed, and a large number of taxonomic proposals (TaxoProps) were submitted to the ICTV Executive Committee (EC) for approval.enThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00705-018-3723-zProkaryotic virusInternational Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)TaxoPropsVirus taxonomyArticle