Peter P. C. Mertens

TL;DR: With increasing numbers of complete RV genome sequences becoming available, a standardized RV strain nomenclature system is needed, and the RCWG proposes that individual RV strains are named as follows: RV group/species of origin/country of identification/common name/year of identification /G- and P-type.

TL;DR: This work suggests that this spread has been driven by recent changes in European climate that have allowed increased virus persistence during winter, the northward expansion of Culicoides imicola, the main bluetongue virus vector, and, beyond this vector's range, transmission by indigenous European Culicoide species — thereby expanding the risk of transmission over larger geographical regions.

TL;DR: A Rotavirus Classification Working Group (RCWG) including specialists in molecular virology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and public health was formed, which can assist in the appropriate delineation of new genotypes, thus avoiding duplications and helping minimize errors.

TL;DR: The structure of the core particle of bluetongue virus has been determined by X-ray crystallography at a resolution approaching 3.5 Å, and the atomic structure indicates how approximately 1,000 protein components self-assemble.

TL;DR: The results of these experiments have allowed the assignment of each of the genome segments of BTV 1 to the protein(s) which it encodes and consequently to the structural and nonstructural proteins found in the infected cell.