Mycoviruses as a part of the global virome: Diversity, evolutionary links and lifestyle

MA Ayllón, EJ Vainio - Advances in virus research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of mycovirus diversity, evolution, horizontal gene transfer and shared
ancestry with viruses infecting distantly related hosts, such as plants and arthropods, has …

Continued mycovirus discovery expanding our understanding of virus lifestyles, symptom expression, and host defense

Y Sato, N Suzuki - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
High-throughput sequencing technologies have greatly expanded the RNA virome in
general and have led to an exponential increase in new fungal viruses, also known as …

[PDF][PDF] Identification of RNA Virus–Derived RdRp Sequences in Publicly Available Transcriptomic Data Sets

I Olendraite, K Brown, AE Firth - Molecular biology and evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
RNA viruses are abundant and highly diverse and infect all or most eukaryotic organisms.
However, only a tiny fraction of the number and diversity of RNA virus species have been …

A collection of Trichoderma isolates from natural environments in Sardinia reveals a complex virome that includes negative-sense fungal viruses with unprecedented …

S Pagnoni, S Oufensou, V Balmas, D Bulgari… - Virus …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Trichoderma genus includes soil-inhabiting fungi that provide important ecosystem services
in their interaction with plants and other fungi, as well as biocontrol of fungal plant diseases …

[HTML][HTML] New clades of viruses infecting the obligatory biotroph Bremia lactucae representing distinct evolutionary trajectory for viruses infecting oomycetes

M Forgia, S Daghino, M Chiapello, M Ciuffo… - Virus …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent advances in high throughput sequencing (HTS) approaches allowed a broad
exploration of viromes from different fungal hosts, unveiling a great diversity of mycoviruses …

Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses

J Xie, D Jiang - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Mycoviruses are widely distributed among various kinds of fungi. Over the past 10 years,
more novel mycoviruses have been discovered with the use of high-throughput sequencing …

Discovery and Characterization of Putative Glycoprotein-Encoding Mycoviruses in the Bunyavirales

H Huang, X Hua, X Pang, Z Zhang, J Ren… - Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although segmented negative-sense RNA viruses (SNSRVs) have been frequently
discovered in various fungi, most SNSRVs reported only the large segments. In this study …

A virus associated with the zoonotic pathogen Plasmodium knowlesi causing human malaria is a member of a diverse and unclassified viral taxon

ME Petrone, J Charon, MJ Grigg, T William… - Virus …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The Apicomplexa are a phylum of single-celled eukaryotes that can infect humans and
include the mosquito-borne parasite Plasmodium, the cause of malaria. Viruses that infect …

Unveiling mycoviral diversity in Ophiocordyceps sinensis through transcriptome analyses

Q Kang, J Zhang, F Chen, C Dong, Q Qin, X Li… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Ophiocordyceps sinensis, an entomopathogenic fungus, infects larvae from the Lepidoptera:
Hepialidae family, forming the valuable Chinese cordyceps. Mycoviruses are widespread …

First detection of mycoviruses in Gnomoniopsis castaneae suggests a putative horizontal gene transfer event between negative-sense and double-strand RNA viruses

F Ferilli, G Lione, P Gonthier, M Turina, M Forgia - Virology, 2024 - Elsevier
Gnomoniopsis castaneae is an ascomycetous fungus mainly known as a major pathogen of
chestnut causing nut rots, although it is often found as an endophyte in chestnut tissues. To …