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 …

Mycoviruses are viruses that infect fungi. A growing number of novel mycoviruses have
expanded our knowledge of virology, particularly in taxonomy, ecology, and evolution …

Insects constitute the largest and most diverse group of animals on Earth with an equally
diverse virome. The main antiviral immune system of these animals is the post …

Over the past decade, researchers have begun to characterize viral diversity using
metagenomic methods. These studies have shown that viruses, the majority of which infect …

Anelloviruses are small negative-sense single-stranded DNA viruses with genomes ranging
in size from 1.6 to 3.9 kb. The family Anelloviridae comprised 14 genera before the present …

While single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) was once thought to be a relatively rare genomic
architecture for viruses, modern metagenomics sequencing has revealed circular ssDNA …

Slave trading of Africans to the Americas, during the 16th to the 19th century was
responsible for the first recorded emergence in the New World of two arthropod-borne …

Culicoides midges are abundant hematophagous flies that vector arboviruses of veterinary
and medical importance. Dramatic changes in the epidemiology of Culicoides-borne …

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 …

Aedes spp. are a major public health concern due to their ability to be efficient vectors of
dengue, Chikungunya, Zika, and other arboviruses. With limited vaccines available and no …