Twenty-Five New Viruses Associated with the Drosophilidae (Diptera)

Drosophila melanogaster is an important laboratory model for studies of antiviral immunity in invertebrates, and Drosophila species provide a valuable system to study virus host range and host switching. Here, we use metagenomic RNA sequencing of about 1600 adult flies to discover 25 new RNA viruses...

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Main Authors: Claire L. Webster, Ben Longdon, Samuel H. Lewis, Darren J. Obbard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4137/EBO.S39454