Diversity and evolution of the animal virome

E Harvey, EC Holmes - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has given the study of virus evolution and ecology new relevance.
Although viruses were first identified more than a century ago, we likely know less about …

Fungal nomenclature: managing change is the name of the game

SE Kidd, A Abdolrasouli, F Hagen - Open forum infectious …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Fungal species have undergone and continue to undergo significant nomenclatural change,
primarily due to the abandonment of dual species nomenclature in 2013 and the …

IMG/VR v4: an expanded database of uncultivated virus genomes within a framework of extensive functional, taxonomic, and ecological metadata

AP Camargo, S Nayfach, IMA Chen… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Viruses are widely recognized as critical members of all microbiomes. Metagenomics
enables large-scale exploration of the global virosphere, progressively revealing the …

Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022)

PJ Walker, SG Siddell, EJ Lefkowitz, AR Mushegian… - Archives of …, 2022 - Springer
This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International
Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2022. The entire ICTV was invited to …

Systematic evaluation of horizontal gene transfer between eukaryotes and viruses

NAT Irwin, AA Pittis, TA Richards, PJ Keeling - Nature microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Gene exchange between viruses and their hosts acts as a key facilitator of horizontal gene
transfer and is hypothesized to be a major driver of evolutionary change. Our understanding …

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 …

EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on hepatitis delta virus

MR Brunetto, G Ricco, F Negro, H Wedemeyer… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a defective virus that requires the hepatitis B virus to complete its
life cycle and cause liver damage in humans. HDV is responsible for rare acute and chronic …

[HTML][HTML] Caudovirales bacteriophages are associated with improved executive function and memory in flies, mice, and humans

J Mayneris-Perxachs, A Castells-Nobau… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2022 - cell.com
Growing evidence implicates the gut microbiome in cognition. Viruses, the most abundant
life entities on the planet, are a commonly overlooked component of the gut virome …

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 …

Renaming of the genus Flavivirus to Orthoflavivirus and extension of binomial species names within the family Flaviviridae

TS Postler, M Beer, BJ Blitvich, J Bukh… - Archives of …, 2023 - Springer
This review provides a summary of the recently ratified changes to genus and species
nomenclature within the virus family Flaviviridae along with reasons for these changes. First …