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Taxonomy and nomenclature of viruses
1Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, UK.
Microbiological Sciences
|July 1, 1985
Abstract:
In his article The species concept in plant virology Milne1 describes the CMI/AAB Descriptions of Plant Viruses2 as providing the 'creeping barrage' (for the 'anti-species' views of many plant virologists and others) in the seemingly unending trench warfare over virus taxonomy and nomenclature. As an editor since 1970 (with BD Harrison) of this continuing series, I am moved to fire a few additional shots in support of Milne's thesis.