Uncovered diversity of infectious circular RNAs: A new paradigm for the minimal parasites?

Abstract Infectious circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been considered as biological oddities only occurring in plants, with limited exceptions. However, a great diversity of viroid-like circRNAs has been recently uncovered by the high-throughput exploration of transcriptomic data of geographically and e...

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Main Author: Joan Marquez-Molins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-04-01
Series:npj Viruses
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s44298-024-00023-7