A Novel Taxon of RNA Viruses Endemic to Planarian Flatworms
J. Burrows, D. Depierreux, M. L. Nibert, B. J. Pearson
The paper identifies a novel dsRNA virus endemic to planarians, shows it persists in differentiated tissues and evades RNAi, and proposes it as a model for host-virus evolution.
bioRxiv · Feb 15, 2019Microbiology