Viruses and other selfish genetic elements are dominant entities in the biosphere, with
respect to both physical abundance and genetic diversity. Various selfish elements …

Virus metagenomics is a young research filed but it has already transformed our
understanding of virus diversity and evolution, and illuminated at a new level the …

Current knowledge of RNA virus biodiversity is both biased and fragmentary, reflecting a
focus on culturable or disease-causing agents. Here we profile the transcriptomes of over …

The distribution and diversity of RNA viruses in fungi is incompletely understood due to the
often cryptic nature of mycoviral infections and the focused study of primarily pathogenic …

Mycoviruses are widespread in nature and often occur with dsRNA and positive-stranded
RNA genomes. Recently, strong evidence from RNA sequencing analysis suggested that …

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 …

Land plants host a vast and diverse virome that is dominated by RNA viruses, with major
additional contributions from reverse-transcribing and single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses …

ABSTRACT A wide range of bacterial pathogens have been identified in ticks, yet the
diversity of viruses in ticks is largely unexplored. In the United States, Amblyomma …

While a large number of negative-strand (−) RNA viruses infect animals and humans, a
relative small number have plants as their primary host. Some of these have been classified …

Alphaherpesviruses are widespread in the human population, and include herpes simplex
virus 1 (HSV-1) and 2, and varicella zoster virus (VZV). These viral pathogens cause …