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“Yaraviridae”: a proposed new family of viruses infecting Acanthamoeba castellanii
Here, we propose the creation of the family “ Yaraviridae” , a new taxon to classify a virus infecting Acanthamoeba castellanii cells. Recently, we...
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Changes to virus taxonomy and to the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2021)
This article reports the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in March 2021....
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Constant ratio between the genomic components of bipartite begomoviruses during infection and transmission
The genomic components of multipartite viruses are encapsidated in separate virus particles, and the frequencies of genomic components represent one...
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The Diversity, Evolution and Emergence of Rabies Virus in the Americas
The Americas represent a unique geographic region where rabies virus variants derive from a variety of species, comprising both bats and carnivores,...
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The origin and evolution of viruses inferred from fold family structure
The canonical frameworks of viral evolution describe viruses as cellular predecessors, reduced forms of cells, or entities that escaped cellular...
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Lower viral evolutionary pressure under stable versus fluctuating conditions in subzero Arctic brines
BackgroundClimate change threatens Earth’s ice-based ecosystems which currently offer archives and eco-evolutionary experiments in the extreme....
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Illuminating the human virome in health and disease
Although the microbiome is established as an important regulator of health and disease, the role of viruses that inhabit asymptomatic humans...
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Virus goes viral: an educational kit for virology classes
BackgroundViruses are the most numerous entities on Earth and have also been central to many episodes in the history of humankind. As the study of...
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Novel Dicistroviruses in an Unexpected Wide Range of Invertebrates
Dicistroviruses are members of a rapidly growing family of small RNA viruses. Related sequences have been discovered in many environmental samples,...
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Binomial nomenclature for virus species: a long view
On several occasions over the past century it has been proposed that Latinized (Linnaean) binomial names (LBs) should be used for the formal names of...
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In-depth study of tomato and weed viromes reveals undiscovered plant virus diversity in an agroecosystem
BackgroundIn agroecosystems, viruses are well known to influence crop health and some cause phytosanitary and economic problems, but their diversity...
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Characterization of the lytic archaeal virus Drs3 infecting Methanobacterium formicicum
Viruses are ubiquitous in the biosphere and greatly affect the hosts they infect. It is generally accepted that members of every microbial taxon are...
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Retrieval and Investigation of Data on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Using Bioinformatics Approach
Sudden emergence and a rapid outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 accompanied by a devastating impact on the economy and public health has driven extensive...
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Identification of a distinct lineage of aviadenovirus from crane feces
Viruses are believed to be ubiquitous; however, the diversity of viruses is largely unknown because of the bias of previous research toward...
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Detection of Bacteriophages: Sequence-Based Systems
The invention of sequencing technologies has fundamentally changed molecular biology, including the way we look at bacteriophages. In addition to...
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Virus Mechanics: A Structure-Based Biological Perspective
A virus particle possesses a certain degree of stiffness, brittleness, strength against disruption by mechanical force, and resistance to material...
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Minnesota peat viromes reveal terrestrial and aquatic niche partitioning for local and global viral populations
BackgroundPeatlands are expected to experience sustained yet fluctuating higher temperatures due to climate change, leading to increased microbial...
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Membrane-Containing Icosahedral Bacteriophage PRD1: The Dawn of Viral Lineages
Membrane-containing enterobacterial phage PRD1 was isolated from sewage more than 40 years ago. At that time none would have expected the impact that...
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Vast diversity of prokaryotic virus genomes encoding double jelly-roll major capsid proteins uncovered by genomic and metagenomic sequence analysis
BackgroundAnalysis of metagenomic sequences has become the principal approach for the study of the diversity of viruses. Many recent, extensive...
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Thousands of previously unknown phages discovered in whole-community human gut metagenomes
BackgroundDouble-stranded DNA bacteriophages (dsDNA phages) play pivotal roles in structuring human gut microbiomes; yet, the gut virome is far from...
