Ezequiel Miguel Marzinelli

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.

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.