Animal Virus with Multicomponent Genome (IMAGE)

US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

Animal Virus with Multicomponent Genome

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Multicomponent viruses, which separately package different genome segments, were thought to be restricted to plant and fungal hosts. Ladner et al. characterize a multicomponent mosquito virus and describe an evolutionarily-related, segmented virus in a non-human primate. These findings provide evidence for multicomponent animal viruses and suggest relevance to animal health. Photo depicts the presence of different viral RNA segments within infected cells.

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Michael Lindquist, USAMRIID (US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases)

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