Virus world as an evolutionary network of viruses and capsidless selfish elements

EV Koonin, VV Dolja - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viruses were defined as one of the two principal types of organisms in the biosphere,
namely, as capsid-encoding organisms in contrast to ribosome-encoding organisms, ie, all …

Lifestyles of plant viruses

MJ Roossinck - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The vast majority of well-characterized eukaryotic viruses are those that cause acute or
chronic infections in humans and domestic plants and animals. However, asymptomatic …

A structural and primary sequence comparison of the viral RNA‐dependent RNA polymerases

JA Bruenn - Nucleic acids research, 2003 - academic.oup.com
A systematic bioinformatic approach to identifying the evolutionarily conserved regions of
proteins has verified the universality of a newly described conserved motif in RNA …

The Big Bang of picorna-like virus evolution antedates the radiation of eukaryotic supergroups

EV Koonin, YI Wolf, K Nagasaki, VV Dolja - Nature Reviews …, 2008 - nature.com
The recent discovery of RNA viruses in diverse unicellular eukaryotes and developments in
evolutionary genomics have provided the means for addressing the origin of eukaryotic RNA …

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Endornaviridae

RA Valverde, ME Khalifa, R Okada… - Journal of General …, 2019 - microbiologyresearch.org
The family Endornaviridae includes viruses with linear, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA
genomes that range from 9.7 to 17.6 kb and have been reported infecting plants, fungi and …

Bell pepper endornavirus: molecular and biological properties, and occurrence in the genus Capsicum

R Okada, E Kiyota, S Sabanadzovic… - Journal of General …, 2011 - microbiologyresearch.org
Bell peppers (Capsicum annuum) harbour a large dsRNA virus. The linear genome (14.7
kbp) of two isolates from Japanese and USA bell pepper cultivars were completely …

Endornaviruses: persistent dsRNA viruses with symbiotic properties in diverse eukaryotes

T Fukuhara - Virus Genes, 2019 - Springer
Endornaviruses are unique, persistent, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses with
symbiotic properties that infect diverse eukaryotes, such as plants, fungi, and oomycetes …

A double-stranded RNA from a Phytophthora species is related to the plant endornaviruses and contains a putative UDP glycosyltransferase gene

CV Hacker, CM Brasier… - Journal of general …, 2005 - microbiologyresearch.org
A new dsRNA was isolated from a Phytophthora isolate from Douglas fir. Sequence analysis
showed the dsRNA to consist of 13 883 bp and to contain a single open reading frame with …

The Microbial Rosetta Stone Database: a compilation of global and emerging infectious microorganisms and bioterrorist threat agents

DJ Ecker, R Sampath, P Willett, JR Wyatt, V Samant… - BMC microbiology, 2005 - Springer
Background Thousands of different microorganisms affect the health, safety, and economic
stability of populations. Many different medical and governmental organizations have …

Partitioning evapotranspiration in sparsely vegetated rangeland using a portable chamber

DI Stannard, MA Weltz - Water resources research, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A portable chamber was used to separate evapotranspiration (ET) from a sparse, mixed‐
species shrub canopy in southeastern Arizona, United States, into vegetation and soil …