Closest relatives of poxviruses replicate in the digestive system of humans and animals worldwide

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<h4>Summary</h4> Large and giant double-stranded DNA viruses are diverse and highly prevalent in the environment where they substantially affect the ecology and evolution of eukaryotes 1–4 . Until now, they were only sporadically found in the digestive system of vertebrates 5–7 . Here, we present the discovery of a diversified group of DNA viruses with large linear genomes dubbed egoviruses that comprise a puta...

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• Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
• Animal Virus Infections Studies
• Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
• Parvovirus B19 Infection Studies
• Plant Virus Research Studies
• SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
• Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
• Virus-based gene therapy research

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Literature Corpus work

79ac1580-6cec-54c9-9b88-44ec0d9bf6bb

DOI

10.1101/2024.03.23.586382