The discovery of giant viruses, with capsids as large as some bacteria, megabase-range
genomes and a variety of traits typically found only in cellular organisms, was one of the …

Abstract Yellow mealworms (Tenebrio molitor; Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) are currently the
most farmed holometabolous insect species in the insects as food and feed industry, with …

Singapore grouper iridovirus (SGIV), one of the nucleocytoviricota viruses (NCVs), is a
highly pathogenic iridovirid. SGIV infection results in massive economic losses to the …

About 15% of human cancer cases are attributed to viral infections. To date, virus expression
in tumor tissues has been mostly studied by aligning tumor RNA sequencing reads to …

The host spectrum of viruses is quite diverse, as they can sustainedly infect a few species to
several phyla. When confronted with a new host, a virus may even infect it and transmit …

With the increasing density of shrimp breeding, environmental deterioration and stress
associated with intensification have caused diseases occurred frequently. Due to the high …

As a new type of shrimp lethal virus, decapod iridescent virus 1 (DIV1) has caused huge
economic losses to shrimp farmers in China. Up to now, DIV1 has been detected in a variety …

An ulcerative disease of largemouth bass has severely damaged Chinese largemouth bass
industry for years. Here, we investigated prevalence of this disease in southwest China and …

Invertebrate iridoviruses (IIVs), while mostly described in a wide range of invertebrate hosts,
have also been repeatedly detected in diagnostic samples from poikilothermic vertebrates …

Interest in develo** food, feed, and other useful products from farmed insects has gained
remarkable momentum in the past decade. Crickets are an especially popular group of …