The Expanding Virosphere

Edward C Holmes

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2016.08.007

The Expanding Virosphere

Cell Host Microbe. 2016 Sep 14;20(3):279-280. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2016.08.007.

Author

Edward C Holmes¹

Affiliation

¹ Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Sydney Medical School, the University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia. Electronic address: edward.holmes@sydney.edu.au.

PMID: 27631697
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2016.08.007

Abstract

Multicomponent viruses are common in plants and fungi. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Ladner et al. (2016) describe a multicomponent virus from animals. This supports an emerging view that invertebrates harbor a remarkable viral diversity and highlights how little of the virosphere has been explored.

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Animals
Fungi*
Viruses*