Journal
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 221, Issue 1, Pages 86-92Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15364
Keywords
double-stranded RNA virus; horizontal gene transfer; mitochondrial viruses; phylogenetics; virus ecology; virus metagenomics
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- Huck Institute of Life Sciences, Penn State University
- College of Agricultural Science, Penn State University
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Plants and microorganisms have been interacting in both positive and negative ways for millions of years. They are also frequently infected with viruses that can have positive or negative impacts. A majority of virus families with members that infect fungi have counterparts that infect plants, and in some cases the phylogenetic analyses of these virus families indicate transmission between the plant and fungal kingdoms. These similarities reflect the host relationships; fungi are evolutionarily more closely related to animals than to plants but share very few viral signatures with animal viruses. The details of several of these interactions are described, and the evolutionary implications of viral cross-kingdom interactions and horizontal gene transfer are proposed.
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