The majority of the diverse viruses infecting eukaryotes have RNA genomes, including numerous human, animal, and plant pathogens. Recent advances of metagenomics have led to the discovery of many new groups of RNA viruses in a wide range of hosts. These findings enable a far more complete reconstruction of the evolution of RNA viruses than was attainable previously. This reconstruction reveals the relationships between different Baltimore classes of viruses and indicates extensive transfer of viruses between distantly related hosts, such as plants and animals. These results call for a major revision of the existing taxonomy of RNA viruses.
Uri Neri, Yuri I. Wolf, Simon Roux, Antônio Pedro Camargo, Benjamin D. Lee, Darius Kazlauskas, I. Min Chen, Natalia Ivanova, Lisa Zeigler Allen, David Páez-Espino, Donald A. Bryant, Devaki Bhaya, Mart Krupovìč, Valerian V. Dolja, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Eugene V Koonin, Uri Gophna
Uri Neri, Yuri I. Wolf, Simon Roux, Antônio Pedro Camargo, Benjamin Lee, Darius Kazlauskas, I. Min Chen, Natalia Ivanova, Lisa Zeigler Allen, David Páez-Espino, Donald A. Bryant, Devaki Bhaya, Mart Krupovìč, Valerian V. Dolja, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Eugene V Koonin, Uri Gophna, Adrienne B. Narrowe, Alexander J. Probst, Alexander Sczyrba, Annegret Kohler, Armand Séguin, Ashley Shade, Barbara J. Campbell,
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