Publications by authors named "Mason Kerr"
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- Research on aquatic plant viruses is less advanced than that of land plant viruses, prompting a study to identify viruses in freshwater macrophytes, which are large aquatic plants visible to the naked eye.
- Using next generation sequencing, the study detected 156 viral sequences linked to freshwater macrophytes, indicating a diverse range of viruses and suggesting similarities with viruses found in terrestrial plants.
- Notably, the study found that some terrestrial plant viruses might also infect underwater plants, highlighting a possible connection between terrestrial and aquatic plant viruses and underscoring the need to explore the virome of aquatic plants for better understanding virus evolution.
Here, we describe four novel circular single-stranded DNA viruses discovered in fungus-farming termites ( sp.). The viruses, named termite-associated circular virus 1 (TaCV-1) through TaCV-4, are most similar to members of the family and were widely detected in African termite mounds.
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