Junin virus, the cause of Argentine hemorrhagic fever, as well as related viruses have become a more serious problem in South America with the spread of farming. Ebola virus, responsible for several small African epidemics with a case fatality rate of 70%, was first described in the 1970s. ...
DNA viruses have a major influence on the ecology and evolution of cellular organisms, but their overall diversity and evolutionary trajectories remain elusive5. Here we carried out a phylogeny-guided genome-resolved metagenomic survey of the sunlit oceans and discovered plankton-infecting relatives of ...
mosquitoes, ticks, or flies, and belong to the following virus families: flaviviridae (many) (all flaviviruses except hepatitis C are arboviruses); alphaviruses (many); bunyaviridae (many); rhabdoviridae (Chandipura virus, of the vesiculoviruses); and reoviridae (coltiviruses of the orbi...
Soybean (Glycine maxL. Merr.) is valued worldwide for the high levels of protein and oil in its seeds, which have many uses in food, animal feed products, industrial feedstocks, and biodiesel production [1]. Soybean production is challenged by diseases caused by numerous microbial pathogens su...
Some of these viruses have important biological roles, such as limiting fungal pathogenicity4,5 or increasing protist fecundity6. The double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses of the family Totiviridae have evolved extensive diversity and are present in phyla separated by a billion years of evolution,...
All enteric viruses except the adenoviruses contain RNA, have a protein capsid that protects the nucleic acid, and are non-enveloped. In the environ- ment and in food, the enteric viruses are inert particles and do not replicate or metabolize because, like all other viruses, they are obligate...
Influenza B viruses do not have subtypes, but they are subdivided into two anti- genically distinct lineages: B/Victoria and B/Yamagata. The following information is used in the naming of individual virus strains: type, species of origin (if non- human), geographic location of isolation ...
The discovery of giant viruses with genome and physical size comparable to cellular organisms, remnants of protein translation machinery and virus-specific parasites (virophages) have raised intriguing questions about their origin. Evidence advocates for their inclusion into global phylogenomic studies and...
These nine viruses were included in the RVP based on if they heavily circulate in the population and have capacity to cause respiratory virus symptoms, while others were excluded if genomic diversity was difficult to account for concisely, such as HRV43. We first conducted range-determining limit...
Generally, viruses are thought to infect a narrow range of hosts. Recent studies, however, have suggested that broad host range viruses may be more common in nature and may have been overlooked due to cultivation biases4. Thus far, there exist reports of viruses infecting multiple bacterial spec...