Methods in virus diagnostics: from ELISA to next generation sequencing

N Boonham, J Kreuze, S Winter, R van der Vlugt… - Virus research, 2014 - Elsevier
Despite the seemingly continuous development of newer and ever more elaborate methods
for detecting and identifying viruses, very few of these new methods get adopted for routine …

Global organization and proposed megataxonomy of the virus world

EV Koonin, VV Dolja, M Krupovic… - Microbiology and …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viruses and mobile genetic elements are molecular parasites or symbionts that coevolve
with nearly all forms of cellular life. The route of virus replication and protein expression is …

Revisiting the taxonomy of the family Circoviridae: establishment of the genus Cyclovirus and removal of the genus Gyrovirus

K Rosario, M Breitbart, B Harrach, J Segalés… - Archives of …, 2017 - Springer
The family Circoviridae contains viruses with covalently closed, circular, single-stranded
DNA (ssDNA) genomes, including the smallest known autonomously replicating, capsid …

New insights into mycoviruses and exploration for the biological control of crop fungal diseases

J **e, D Jiang - Annual Review of Phytopathology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Mycoviruses are viruses that infect fungi. A growing number of novel mycoviruses have
expanded our knowledge of virology, particularly in taxonomy, ecology, and evolution …

Eukaryotic circular rep-encoding single-stranded DNA (CRESS DNA) viruses: ubiquitous viruses with small genomes and a diverse host range

L Zhao, K Rosario, M Breitbart, S Duffy - Advances in virus research, 2019 - Elsevier
While single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) was once thought to be a relatively rare genomic
architecture for viruses, modern metagenomics sequencing has revealed circular ssDNA …

Identification of diverse mycoviruses through metatranscriptomics characterization of the viromes of five major fungal plant pathogens

SYL Marzano, BD Nelson, O Ajayi-Oyetunde… - Journal of …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycoviruses can have a marked effect on natural fungal communities and influence plant
health and productivity. However, a comprehensive picture of mycoviral diversity is still …

Microviruses: A World Beyond phiX174

PC Kirchberger, H Ochman - Annual Review of Virology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Two decades of metagenomic analyses have revealed that in many environments, small (∼
5 kb), single-stranded DNA phages of the family Microviridae dominate the virome. Although …

Extracellular transmission of a DNA mycovirus and its use as a natural fungicide

X Yu, B Li, Y Fu, J **e, J Cheng… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Mycoviruses are thought not to be infectious as free particles and to lack an extracellular
phase in their life cycles, limiting the broad use of hypovirulence-associated mycoviruses in …

2024 taxonomy update for the family Circoviridae

A Varsani, B Harrach, P Roumagnac, M Benkő… - Archives of …, 2024 - Springer
Circovirids have a circular single-stranded DNA genome packed into a small icosahedral
capsid. They are classified within two genera, Circovirus and Cyclovirus, in the family …

Fungal DNA virus infects a mycophagous insect and utilizes it as a transmission vector

S Liu, J **e, J Cheng, B Li, T Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Mycoviruses are usually transmitted horizontally via hyphal anastomosis and vertically via
sexual/asexual spores. Previously, we reported that a gemycircularvirus, Sclerotinia …