Expanding diversity and ecological roles of RNA viruses

Yantao Liang; Kaiyang Zheng; Andrew McMinn; Min Wang

doi:10.1016/j.tim.2022.12.004

Expanding diversity and ecological roles of RNA viruses

Trends Microbiol. 2023 Mar;31(3):229-232. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2022.12.004. Epub 2023 Jan 9.

Authors

Yantao Liang¹, Kaiyang Zheng², Andrew McMinn³, Min Wang⁴

Affiliations

¹ College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change and Center for Ocean Carbon Neutrality, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China; UMT-OUC Joint Centre for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China.
² College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change and Center for Ocean Carbon Neutrality, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.
³ College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change and Center for Ocean Carbon Neutrality, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia.
⁴ College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change and Center for Ocean Carbon Neutrality, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China; UMT-OUC Joint Centre for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China; Haide College, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China; The affiliated hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao 266000, China. Electronic address: mingwang@ouc.edu.cn.

PMID: 36628835
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2022.12.004

Abstract

While the diversity of global environmental RNA viruses has remained largely unexplored, recent advances have reported on the discovery of over 10⁶ RNA viral contigs from both terrestrial and marine ecosystems that will help us to better understand the diversity, evolution, ecological roles, and transmission of RNA viruses.

Keywords: Earth; RNA virus; diversity; ecological role; metagenomes; metatranscriptomes.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Ecosystem*
Genome, Viral
Phylogeny
RNA Viruses* / genetics