The accurate classification of viral dark matter–metagenomic sequences that originate from
viruses but do not align to any reference virus sequences–is one of the major obstacles in …

It is hard to overemphasize the role that metagenomics has had on our recent understanding
of RNA virus diversity. Metagenomics in the 21st century has brought with it an explosion in …

Background Wild birds may harbor and transmit viruses that are potentially pathogenic to
humans, domestic animals, and other wildlife. Results Using the viral metagenomic …

Little is known about the factors that shape the ecology of RNA viruses in nature. Wild birds
are an important case in point, as other than influenza A virus, avian samples are rarely …

Viruses of hyperthermophilic archaea represent one of the least understood parts of the
virosphere, showing little genomic and morphological similarity to viruses of bacteria or …

Emerging evidence supports that the phage-prokaryote interaction drives ecological
processes in various environments with different phage life strategies. However, the …

Phylosymbiosis was recently proposed to describe the eco-evolutionary pattern whereby the
ecological relatedness (eg, beta diversity relationships) of host-associated microbial …

Camels are known carriers for many viral pathogens, including Middle East respiratory
syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). It is likely that there are additional, as yet unidentified …

Viruses in the family Papillomaviridae have circular dsDNA genomes of approximately 5.7–
8.6 kb that are packaged within non-enveloped, icosahedral capsids. The known …

The fecal virome comprises a complex diversity of eukaryotic viruses, phages and viruses
that infect the host. However, little is known about the intestinal community of viruses that is …