Transcriptome mining expands knowledge of RNA viruses across the plant kingdom

JCO Mifsud, RV Gallagher, EC Holmes… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Our current understanding of plant viruses stems largely from those affecting economically
important plants. Yet plant species in cultivation represent a small and biased subset of the …

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 …

Diversity, evolution, and emergence of fish viruses

VA Costa, EC Holmes - Journal of Virology, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
The production of aquatic animals has more than doubled over the last 50 years and is
anticipated to continually increase. While fish are recognized as a valuable and sustainable …

Diverse RNA viruses associated with diatom, eustigmatophyte, dinoflagellate, and rhodophyte microalgae cultures

J Charon, T Kahlke, ME Larsson, R Abbriano… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Unicellular microalgae are of immense ecological importance with growing commercial
potential in industries such as renewable energy, food, and pharmacology. Viral infections …

Discovery and Evolution of Six Positive-Sense RNA Viruses Co-infecting the Hypovirulent Strain SCH733 of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

D Hai, J Li, S Lan, T Wu, Y Li, J Cheng, Y Fu… - …, 2022 - Am Phytopath Society
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a well-known phytopathogenic fungus with a wide host range.
Identifying novel mycoviruses in phytopathogenic fungi is necessary to develop novel …

Primordial Capsid and Spooled ssDNA Genome Structures Unravel Ancestral Events of Eukaryotic Viruses

A Munke, K Kimura, Y Tomaru, H Wang, K Yoshida… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Marine algae viruses are important for controlling microorganism communities in the marine
ecosystem and played fundamental roles during the early events of viral evolution. Here, we …

Highly divergent CRESS DNA and picorna-like viruses associated with bleached thalli of the green seaweed Ulva

LM van der Loos, L De Coninck, R Zell… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Marine macroalgae (seaweeds) are important primary producers and foundation species in
coastal ecosystems around the world. Seaweeds currently contribute to an estimated 51% of …