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SUBMITTER: Chang WS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6628682 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chang Wei-Shan WS Pettersson John H-O JH Le Lay Callum C Shi Mang M Lo Nathan N Wille Michelle M Eden John-Sebastian JS Holmes Edward C EC
Virus evolution 20190715 2
Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is the smallest known RNA virus, encoding a single protein. Until recently, HDV had only been identified in humans, where it is strongly associated with co-infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV). However, the recent discovery of HDV-like viruses in metagenomic samples from birds and snakes suggests that this virus has a far longer evolutionary history. Herein, using additional meta-transcriptomic data, we show that highly divergent HDV-like viruses are also present in ...[more]