Mary E. Petrone

The paper identifies ten new sarthrovirus species from diverse hosts in Australia, expanding the family to 11 species and seven genera, and suggests alternative replication strategies and helper virus associations.

This study identifies MaRNAV-1 as an intracellular virus in Plasmodium vivax that increases transmission and alters host immune responses.

The paper maps the geographic distribution and host associations of MaRNAV-1, a virus linked to Plasmodium vivax, using metatranscriptomic data.

The paper identifies a novel Rickettsia species and DNA viruses in Australian ticks using metagenomics and models Rickettsia exposure zones.

The paper analyzes tunicate metatranscriptomes to show that some disease-causing RNA viruses evolved before vertebrates and that recombination between viral orders shaped their evolution.

This paper identifies a 39.8kb flavi-like virus without an exonuclease that overcomes the RNA virus error threshold by using bacterial nucleic acid metabolism domains.

The paper identifies a novel RNA virus in zoonotic Plasmodium knowlesi isolates, showing it belongs to an unclassified viral taxon called ormycoviruses.