In a recent article published in PLOS Biology, a team of 45 virologists, evolutionary biologists, bioinformaticians, and structural biologists from around the world arrived at a consensus on virus ...

Mya Breitbart has hunted novel viruses in African termite mounds, Antarctic seals and water from the Red Sea. But to hit pay dirt, she has only to step into her back garden in Florida. Hanging around ...

A new influenza virus that affects cattle has an official name. influenza D. The executive committee of the International Committee of Taxonomy of Virus announced a new genus, Orthomyxovirdae, with a ...

New research by scientists at the University of Glasgow suggests that machine learning (ML) models developed using viral genomes can be harnessed to predict the likelihood that any animal-infecting ...

Newly discovered Mengla virus is evolutionarily closely related to Ebola virus and Marburg virus and shares several important functional similarities with them. For example, the genome organization of ...

Virology is the study of viruses and virus-like agents, including, but not limited to, their taxonomy, disease-producing properties, cultivation, and genetics. Virology is often considered a part of ...

A search for resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) within the genus Lycopersicon was made. Resistance to CMV isolates from eastern Spain were found in accessions of the species L. hirsutum (2 ...