• 2021 Taxonomic update of phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales 

      Kuhn, Jens H.; Adkins, Scott; Agwanda, Bernard R.; Kubrusli, Rim Al; Alkhovsky, Sergey V.; Amarasinghe, Gaya K.; Avšič-Županc, Tatjana; Ayllón, María A.; Bahl, Justin; Balkema-Buschmann, Anne; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Debat, Humberto Julio; Zhou, Xueping (Springer, 2021-08-31)
      In March 2021, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) ratification vote on newly proposed taxa, the phylum Negarnaviricota was amended and emended. The phylum was expanded by four families ...
    • 25S–18S rDNA IGS of Capsicum: molecular structure and comparison 

      Grabiele, Mauro; Debat, Humberto Julio; Moscone, Eduardo Alberto; Ducasse, Daniel Adrian (Springer, 2012-02)
      The primary and secondary structures of the intergenic spacer (IGS) between the 3′-end of 25S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene and the 5′-end of 18S rRNA gene are described for the cultivated chili pepper Capsicum pubescens. The ...
    • A barnavirus sequence mined from a transcriptome of the Antarctic pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis 

      Nibert, Max L.; Manny, Austin R.; Debat, Humberto Julio; Firth, Andrew E.; Bertini, Laura; Caruso, Carla (2018-03)
      Because so few viruses in the family Barnaviridae have been reported, we searched for more of them in public sequence databases. Here, we report the complete coding sequence of Colobanthus quitensis associated barnavirus ...
    • A Divergent Strain of Culex pipiens-Associated Tunisia Virus in the Malaria Vector Anopheles epiroticus 

      Debat, Humberto Julio; Ribeiro, José M.C. (2018-10-25)
      Here, we report the draft genome sequence of a divergent strain ofCulex pipiens-associated Tunisia virus (CpATV) identified in the malaria vectorAnoph-eles epiroticus(CpATV-AnE). CpATV-AnE expands the reference virus ...
    • A glimpse into the DNA virome of the unique “living fossil” Welwitschia mirabilis 

      Debat, Humberto Julio; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban (Elsevier, 2022-08-10)
      Here, we report the identification and characterization of four novel DNA viruses from Welwitschia mirabilis transcriptomic and genomic datasets. Complete circular virus-like sequences with affinity to members of ...
    • A N7-guanine RNA cap methyltransferase signature-sequence as a genetic marker of large genome, non-mammalian Tobaniviridae 

      Ferron, François; Debat, Humberto Julio; Shannon, Ashleigh; Decroly, Etienne; Canard, Bruno (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-12-19)
      The order Nidovirales is a diverse group of (+) RNA viruses, classified together based on their common genome organisation and conserved replicative enzymes, despite drastic differences in size and complexity. One such ...
    • A reference chromosomal map of the hot chili pepper Capsicum pubescens cv. “locoto” (Solanaceae) 

      Aguilera, Patricia Mabel; Debat, Humberto Julio; Seijo, José Guillermo; Grabiele, Mauro (Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, 2021)
      Capsicum pubescens is a cultivated hot chili pepper, consumed in Latin American cuisine as a distinctive ingredient, and popularly known as “locoto” or “rocoto”. This taxon is also an outstanding source of resistance to ...
    • A South American Mouse Morbillivirus Provides Insight into a Clade of Rodent-Borne Morbilliviruses 

      Debat, Humberto Julio (MDPI, 2022-10-29)
      Morbilliviruses are negative-sense single-stranded monosegmented RNA viruses in the family Paramyxoviridae (order Mononegavirales). Morbilliviruses infect diverse mammals including humans, dogs, cats, small ruminants, ...
    • A Survey of Mycoviral Infection in Fusarium spp. Isolated from Maize and Sorghum in Argentina Identifies the First Mycovirus from Fusarium verticillioides 

      Jacquat, Andrés Gustavo; Theumer, Martín Gustavo; Cañizares, María Carmen; Debat, Humberto Julio; Iglesias, Juliana; García Pedrajas, María Dolores; Dambolena, José Sebastián (MDPI, 2020-10)
      Mycoviruses appear to be widespread in Fusarium species worldwide. The aim of this work was to identify mycoviral infections in Fusarium spp., isolated from maize and sorghum grown in Argentina, and to estimate their ...
    • Actualización sobre los virus que infectan papaya en Argentina 

      Cabrera Mederos, Dariel; Portal, O.; Acuña, Luis Eduardo; Badaracco, Alejandra; Rodríguez, E.; Nickel, A.; Sáez, S.; Nome Docampo, Claudia; Debat, Humberto Julio; Torres, C.; Jaramillo, M.; Trucco, Veronica Milagros; Ortiz, Claudio Manuel; Flores, Ceferino Rene; Castellanos Collazo, Onias; Giolitti, Fabian (Asociación Argentina de Fitopatólogos, 2021-09-22)
      La papaya Carica papaya se cultiva en las regiones tropicales y subtropicales, y se establece como una alternativa sustentable en el norte de Argentina Con el objetivo de generar conocimientos para aportar al manejo de las ...
    • 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 ...
    • An insight into the sialome, mialome and virome of the horn fly, Haematobia irritans 

      Ribeiro, J.M.; Debat, Humberto Julio; Boiani, M.; Ures, X.; Rocha, S.; Breijo, M. (BMC, 2019-07-29)
      Background: The horn fly (Haematobia irritans) is an obligate blood feeder that causes considerable economic losses in livestock industries worldwide. The control of this cattle pest is mainly based on insecticides; ...
    • An insight into the sialotranscriptome and virome of Amazonian anophelines 

      Scarpassa, Vera Margarete; Debat, Humberto Julio; Alencar, Ronildo Baiatone; Ferreira Saraiva, José; Calvo, Eric; Arcà, Bruno; Ribeiro, José M. C. (BioMed Central, 2019)
      Background: Saliva of mosquitoes contains anti-platelet, anti-clotting, vasodilatory, anti-complement and antiinflammatory substances that help the blood feeding process. The salivary polypeptides are at a fast pace ...
    • An Integrated Physical Map of the Cultivated Hot Chili Pepper, Capsicum baccatum var. Pendulum 

      Aguilera, Patricia Mabel; Debat, Humberto Julio; Grabiele, Mauro (2017)
      Capsicum baccatum var. Pendulum is the most frequently cultivated chili pepper in South America. This taxon is an outstanding source for breeding programs and genetic improvement in the genus, since its traits can be ...
    • An RNA Virome Associated to the Golden Orb-Weaver Spider Nephila clavipes 

      Debat, Humberto Julio (2017-10)
      The golden orb-weaver spider Nephila clavipes, known for its sexual size dimorphism, is abundant and widespread in the New World. The first annotated genome of orb-weaver spiders, exploring N. clavipes, has recently been ...
    • An Unwanted Association: The Threat to Papaya Crops by a Novel Potexvirus in Northwest Argentina 

      Cabrera Mederos, Dariel; Debat, Humberto Julio; Torres, Carolina; Portal, Orelvis; Jaramillo Zapata, Margarita; Trucco, Veronica Milagros; Flores, Ceferino Rene; Ortiz, Claudio Manuel; Badaracco, Alejandra; Acuña, Luis Eduardo; Nome Docampo, Claudia; Quito-Avila, Diego; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Castellanos Collazo, Onias; Sánchez-Rodríguez, Aminael; Giolitti, Fabian (MDPI, 2022-10-19)
      An emerging virus isolated from papaya (Carica papaya) crops in northwestern (NW) Argentina was sequenced and characterized using next-generation sequencing. The resulting genome is 6667-nt long and encodes five open reading ...
    • Annual (2023) taxonomic update of RNA-directed RNA polymerase-encoding negative-sense RNA viruses (realm Riboviria: kingdom Orthornavirae: phylum Negarnaviricota) 

      Kuhn, Jens H.; Abe, Junya; Adkins, Scott; Alkhovsky, Sergey V.; Avšič-Županc, Tatjana; Ayllón, María A.; Bahl, Justin; Balkema-Buschmann, Anne; Ballinger, Matthew J; Kumar Baranwal, Virendra; Bejerman, Nicolas Esteban; Debat, Humberto Julio; Lodden Økland, Arnfinn (Microbiology Society, 2023-08-25)
      In April 2023, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) ratification vote on newly proposed taxa, the phylum Negarnaviricota was amended and emended. The phylum was expanded by one new ...
    • Argentina: publicly funded science under threat 

      Debat, Humberto Julio (Nature Research, 2023-09-12)
      Last month, Javier Milei, Argentina’s leading presidential candidate, declared his intent to shut down the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and to privatize CONICET, the country’s National Scientific and ...
    • Bean yellow mosaic virus infecting broad bean in the green belt of Córdoba, Argentina 

      Rodriguez Pardina, Patricia; Nome Docampo, Claudia; Reyna, Pablo Gastón; Muñoz, Nacira Belen; Arguello Caro, Evangelina Beatriz; Luque, Andres Vicente; Debat, Humberto Julio (BioRxiv, 2019-04-11)
      Broad bean (Vicia faba L) is the fourth most important pulse crop in the world. In Argentina, broad bean production was of 1,841 hectares and 16,500 tons during the 2017 growing season. Broad bean is commonly used in ...
    • Blood-feeding adaptations and virome assessment of the poultry red mite Dermanyssus gallinae guided by RNA-seq 

      Ribeiro, José M.; Hartmann, David; Bartošová-Sojková, Pavla; Debat, Humberto Julio; Moos, Martin; Šimek, Petr; Fara, Jiří; Palus, Martin; Kučera, Matěj; Hajdušek, Ondřej (Springer Nature, 2023-05-13)
      Dermanyssus gallinae is a blood-feeding mite that parasitises wild birds and farmed poultry. Its remarkably swift processing of blood, together with the capacity to blood-feed during most developmental stages, makes this ...