High-throughput virome analyses with various fungi, from cultured or uncultured sources,
have led to the discovery of diverse viruses with unique genome structures and even neo …

The COVID-19 pandemic has given the study of virus evolution and ecology new relevance.
Although viruses were first identified more than a century ago, we likely know less about …

Whereas DNA viruses are known to be abundant, diverse, and commonly key ecosystem
players, RNA viruses are insufficiently studied outside disease settings. In this study, we …

Background Viruses are a significant player in many biosphere and human ecosystems, but
most signals remain “hidden” in metagenomic/metatranscriptomic sequence datasets due to …

Environmental RNA viruses are ubiquitous and diverse, and probably have important
ecological and biogeochemical impacts. Understanding the global diversity of RNA viruses …

High-throughput RNA sequencing offers broad opportunities to explore the Earth RNA
virome. Mining 5,150 diverse metatranscriptomes uncovered> 2.5 million RNA virus contigs …

Bats are reservoir hosts for many zoonotic viruses. Despite this, relatively little is known
about the diversity and abundance of viruses within individual bats, and hence the …

Emerging infectious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Zika
virus disease, present a major threat to public health 1, 2, 3. Despite intense research efforts …

The gut microbiome profoundly affects human health and disease, and their infecting viruses
are likely as important, but often missed because of reference database limitations. Here, we …

Microbes drive most ecosystems and are modulated by viruses that impact their lifespan,
gene flow, and metabolic outputs. However, ecosystem-level impacts of viral community …