Can plant viruses cross the kingdom border and be pathogenic to humans?

F Balique, H Lecoq, D Raoult, P Colson - Viruses, 2015 - mdpi.com
Phytoviruses are highly prevalent in plants worldwide, including vegetables and fruits.
Humans, and more generally animals, are exposed daily to these viruses, among which …

Coming in from the cold: potential microbial threats from the terrestrial cryosphere

A Edwards - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The terrestrial cryosphere includes> 198,000 glaciers and three ice sheets (Pfeffer et al.,
2014). The paradigm of cryospheric environments as “germless continents”(Byrd, 1938) has …

Abundance, viability and diversity of the indigenous microbial populations at different depths of the NEEM Greenland ice core

V Miteva, K Rinehold, T Sowers, A Sebastian… - Polar …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The 2537-m-deep North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) core provided a first-time
opportunity to perform extensive microbiological analyses on selected, recently drilled ice …

A protein domain-based view of the virosphere–host relationship

A Abroi - Biochimie, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite being an important and inseparable part of the biosphere, viruses are too often
overlooked in several life sciences, including evolutionary biology, systems biology, and non …

Desarrollo de métodos moleculares de detección de virus de RNA de cultivos hortícolas

EA Rangel Aranguren - 2015 - riunet.upv.es
Uno de los problemas a los que se enfrenta la agricultura son los daños producidos por los
virus que causan cada año considerables pérdidas económicas en diversos cultivos de …