Mammalian sperm RNA is increasingly recognized as an additional source of paternal
hereditary information beyond DNA. Environmental inputs, including an unhealthy diet …

Small RNAs are increasingly emerging as transgenerational carriers of epigenetic
information in Caenorhabditis elegans and in other organisms. Recent studies have …

Despite a small genome size, bats have comparable diversity of retroviral and non-retroviral
endogenous sequences to other mammals. These include Class I and Class II retroviral …

RNA interference (RNAi) requires RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRPs) in many
eukaryotes, and RNAi amplification constitutes the only known function for eukaryotic …

Bats are important reservoirs and vectors in the transmission of emerging infectious
diseases. Many highly pathogenic viruses such as SARS-CoV and rabies-related …

Background Genomic regions that remain poorly understood, often referred to as the dark
genome, contain a variety of functionally relevant and biologically informative features …

Tissue samples from Australian carpet pythons (Morelia spilota) with neurological disease
were screened for viruses using next-generation sequencing. Coding complete genomes of …

With advances in sequencing technology, metatranscriptome sequencing from a variety of
environmental and biological sources has revealed the existence of various previously …

Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are sequences in animal genomes that originated from
ancient retrovirus infections; they provide genetic novelty in hosts by being coopted as …

Circoviruses (family Circoviridae) are small, non-enveloped viruses that have short, single-
stranded DNA genomes. Circovirus sequences are frequently recovered in metagenomic …