• An in silico analysis revealed a novel evolutionary lineage of putative mitoviruses 

      Jacquat, Andrés Gustavo; Ulla, Sofía Belén; Debat, Humberto Julio; Muñoz-Adalia, Emigdio Jordán; Theumer, Martín Gustavo; García Pedrajas, M. Dolores; Dambolena, José Sebastián (Wiley, 2022-09-09)
      Mitoviruses (family Mitoviridae) are small capsid-less RNA viruses that replicate in the mitochondria of fungi and plants. However, to date, the only authentic animal mitovirus infecting an insect was identified as Lutzomyia ...
    • Ecology and evolution of papaya ringspot virus 

      Cabrera Mederos, Dariel; Brugo Carivali, María Florencia; Perotto, Maria Cecilia; Luciani, Cecilia Elizabeth; Giolitti, Fabian; Trucco, Veronica Milagros; Portal, Orelvis (Elsevier, 2023-04-06)
      Carica papaya L., native to south of Mexico and Central America, is the third most cultivated tropical crop worldwide. Although more than 35 viruses have been reported infecting papaya, only papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) ...
    • Illuminating the Plant Rhabdovirus Landscape through Metatranscriptomics Data 

      Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Dietzgen, Ralf G.; Debat, Humberto Julio (MDPI, 2021-07-05)
      Rhabdoviruses infect a large number of plant species and cause significant crop diseases. They have a negative-sense, single-stranded unsegmented or bisegmented RNA genome. The number of plant-associated rhabdovirid sequences ...