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A novel insect-infecting virga/nege-like virus group and its pervasive endogenization into insect genomes.
Virus research - 1 Mar 2019
Kondo Hideki, Chiba Sotaro, Maruyama Kazuyuki, Andika Ida Bagus, Suzuki Nobuhiro
Abstract excerpt
Insects are the host and vector of diverse viruses including those that infect vertebrates, plants, and fungi. Recent wide-scale transcriptomic analyses have uncovered the existence of a number of novel insect viruses belonging to an alphavirus-like superfamily (virgavirus/negevirus-related lineage). In this study, through an in silico search using publicly available insect transcriptomic data, we found numerous...
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