Hepatitis delta virus-like circular RNAs from diverse metazoans encode conserved hammerhead ribozymes

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Abstract Human hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is a unique infectious agent whose genome is composed of a small circular RNA. Recent data, however, have reported the existence of highly divergent HDV-like circRNAs in the transcriptomes of diverse vertebrate and invertebrate species. The HDV-like genomes described in amniotes such as birds and reptiles encode self-cleaving RNA motifs or ribozymes similar to the ones...

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