Metatranscriptomic Analysis Reveals the Virome and Viral Genomic Evolution of Medically Important Mites-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Metatranscriptomic Analysis Reveals the Virome and Viral Genomic Evolution of Medically Important Mites

Published:2021-03-10 Issue:7 Volume:95 Page:
ISSN:0022-538X
Container-title:Journal of Virology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Virol

Author:

Guo Liping¹,Lu Xiaoyu¹,Liu Xue¹,Li Ping¹,Wu Junyu¹,Xing Fan¹,Peng Hong¹,Xiao Xiaojun²,Shi Mang¹,Liu Zhigang²,Li Xiao-Dong³,Guo Deyin¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. MOE Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control, Centre for Infection and Immunity Study (CIIS), School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen, China

2. The State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease for Allergy at Shenzhen University, School of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

3. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health San Antonio, Texas, United States

Abstract

Mites are an important group of arthropods that are associated with a variety of human diseases, including scrub typhus and asthma. However, it remains unclear whether or not mites carry viruses that might play a role in human infections or allergic disease.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission | Science and Technology Planning Project of Shenzhen Municipality

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JVI.01686-20

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