Mycovirus diversity and evolution revealed/inferred from recent studies

H Kondo, L Botella, N Suzuki - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
High-throughput virome analyses with various fungi, from cultured or uncultured sources,
have led to the discovery of diverse viruses with unique genome structures and even neo …

Fungi as mediators linking organisms and ecosystems

M Bahram, T Netherway - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fungi form a major and diverse component of most ecosystems on Earth. They are both
micro and macroorganisms with high and varying functional diversity as well as great …

[HTML][HTML] Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages

U Neri, YI Wolf, S Roux, AP Camargo, B Lee… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
High-throughput RNA sequencing offers broad opportunities to explore the Earth RNA
virome. Mining 5,150 diverse metatranscriptomes uncovered> 2.5 million RNA virus contigs …

Fungal viruses unveiled: a comprehensive review of mycoviruses

B Hough, E Steenkamp, B Wingfield, D Read - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mycoviruses (viruses of fungi) are ubiquitous throughout the fungal kingdom and are
currently classified into 23 viral families and the genus botybirnavirus by the International …

Hybrids of RNA viruses and viroid-like elements replicate in fungi

M Forgia, B Navarro, S Daghino, A Cervera… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Earth's life may have originated as self-replicating RNA, and it has been argued that RNA
viruses and viroid-like elements are remnants of such pre-cellular RNA world. RNA viruses …

The Baltimore classification of viruses 50 years later: how does it stand in the light of virus evolution?

EV Koonin, M Krupovic, VI Agol - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2021 - journals.asm.org
SUMMARY Fifty years ago, David Baltimore published a brief conceptual paper delineating
the classification of viruses by the routes of genome expression. The six “Baltimore classes” …

2022 taxonomic update of phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

JH Kuhn, S Adkins, SV Alkhovsky, T Avšič-Županc… - Archives of …, 2022 - Springer
In March 2022, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)
ratification vote on newly proposed taxa, the phylum Negarnaviricota was amended and …

Using artificial intelligence to document the hidden RNA virosphere

X Hou, Y He, P Fang, SQ Mei, Z Xu, WC Wu, JH Tian… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Current metagenomic tools can fail to identify highly divergent RNA viruses. We developed a
deep learning algorithm, termed LucaProt, to discover highly divergent RNA-dependent …

RdRp-scan: A bioinformatic resource to identify and annotate divergent RNA viruses in metagenomic sequence data

J Charon, JP Buchmann, S Sadiq, EC Holmes - Virus Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Despite a rapid expansion in the number of documented viruses following the advent of
metagenomic sequencing, the identification and annotation of highly divergent RNA viruses …

Novel mycoviruses discovered in the mycovirome of a necrotrophic fungus

A Ruiz-Padilla, J Rodríguez-Romero, I Gómez-Cid… - MBio, 2021 - journals.asm.org
Botrytis cinerea is one of the most important plant-pathogenic fungus. Products based on
microorganisms can be used in biocontrol strategies alternative to chemical control, and …