A novel group of diverse Polinton-like viruses discovered by metagenome analysis
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- 作者：Natalya Yutin ; Sofiya Shevchenko ; Vladimir Kapitonov ; Mart Krupovic…
- 刊名：BMC Biology
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：13
- 期：1
- 全文大小：2,012 KB
- 刊物主题：Life Sciences, general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1741-7007
文摘
Background The rapidly growing metagenomic databases provide increasing opportunities for computational discovery of new groups of organisms. Identification of new viruses is particularly straightforward given the comparatively small size of viral genomes, although fast evolution of viruses complicates the analysis of novel sequences. Here we report the metagenomic discovery of a distinct group of diverse viruses that are distantly related to the eukaryotic virus-like transposons of the Polinton superfamily.