Megataxonomy and global ecology of the virosphere

EV Koonin, JH Kuhn, VV Dolja, M Krupovic - The ISME Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Nearly all organisms are hosts to multiple viruses that collectively appear to be the most
abundant biological entities in the biosphere. With recent advances in metagenomics and …

Anelloviruses versus human immunity: how do we control these viruses?

AL Timmerman, ALM Schönert… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
One continuous companion and one of the major players in the human blood virome are
members of the Anelloviridae family. Anelloviruses are probably found in all humans …

Structure of anellovirus-like particles reveal a mechanism for immune evasion

S Liou, R Boggavarapu, NR Cohen, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Anelloviruses are nonpathogenic viruses that comprise a major portion of the human virome.
Despite being ubiquitous in the human population, anelloviruses (ANVs) remain poorly …

Anelloviridae taxonomy update 2023

A Varsani, S Kraberger, T Opriessnig, F Maggi… - Archives of …, 2023 - Springer
The family Anelloviridae comprises negative single-stranded circular DNA viruses. Within
this family, there are 30 established genera. Anelloviruses in the genus Gyrovirus have been …

[HTML][HTML] The Blood Virome: A new frontier in biomedical science

AJ Kandathil, DL Thomas - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent advances in metagenomic testing opened a new window into the mammalian blood
virome. Comprised of well-known viruses like human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis C …

Widespread horizontal gene transfer among animal viruses

CB Buck, N Welch, AK Belford, A Varsani… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The initial objective of this study was to shed light on the evolution of small DNA tumor
viruses by analyzing de novo assemblies of publicly available deep sequencing datasets …

Diverse circular DNA viral communities in blood, oral, and fecal samples of captive lemurs

EN Paietta, S Kraberger, MC Lund, KL Vargas… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Few studies have addressed viral diversity in lemurs despite their unique evolutionary
history on the island of Madagascar and high risk of extinction. Further, while a large number …

Intra-and inter-host origin, evolution dynamics and spatial-temporal transmission characteristics of circoviruses

Y Cui, S Li, W Xu, J **e, D Wang, L Hou… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Since their identification in 1974, circoviruses have caused clinicopathological
diseases in various animal species, including humans. However, their origin, transmission …

Identification of small circular DNA viruses in coyote fecal samples from Arizona (USA)

SC Hess, KCB Weiss, JM Custer, JS Lewis… - Archives of …, 2024 - Springer
Coyotes (Canis latrans) have a broad geographic distribution across North and Central
America. Despite their widespread presence in urban environments in the USA, there is …

A novel functional gene delivery platform based on a commensal human anellovirus demonstrates transduction in multiple tissue types

C Prince, G Bounoutas, B Zhou, W Raja, I Gold… - BioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Anelloviridae is a family of non-enveloped viruses with negative-sense, circular, single-
stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (ssDNA) genomes that infect vertebrates and are a …