A vast world of viroid-like circular RNAs revealed by mining metatranscriptomes
B. D. Lee, U. Neri, S. Roux, Y. I. Wolf, A. P. Camargo, M. Krupovic, P. Simmonds, N. Kyrpides, U. Gophna, V. V. Dolja, E. V. Koonin
The paper identifies 11,420 viroid-like circular RNAs across 5,131 metatranscriptomes and 1,344 plant transcriptomes, revealing a five-fold increase in known viroid-like agents and novel ribozyme combinations.
bioRxiv · Jul 19, 2022 · PreprintMicrobiology