Entamoeba and Giardia parasites implicated as hosts of CRESS viruses

Metagenomics allows virus genome discovery, but the viral hosts are often not identified. Here, Kinsella et al. use recombination events between virus genomes, statistical association of viruses to hosts in clinical samples, and analysis of endogenous viral elements in host genomes to identify proba...

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Main Authors: Cormac M. Kinsella, Aldert Bart, Martin Deijs, Patricia Broekhuizen, Joanna Kaczorowska, Maarten F. Jebbink, Tom van Gool, Matthew Cotten, Lia van der Hoek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18474-w