Marcos de la Peña

This study identifies self-cleaving ribozymes in RNA viruses, showing their role in translation initiation across fungi and plants.

The paper describes RNA virus diversity in declining Mediterranean forests, identifying 146 viral sequences across three habitats and highlighting novel viral families and genome types.

This paper identifies and characterizes TsvlRNA1, a viroid-like RNA in Trichoderma spirale that transmits between species and modulates biocontrol capacity against plant pathogens.

The paper identifies a new class of viroid-like elements, Obelisks, prevalent in human microbiomes and capable of persistent colonization.

The paper identifies a diverse virome in Heterobasidion populations from Czechia, including novel viruses, and shows some cause growth reduction and proteome changes in the host.

The paper develops a cloud computing infrastructure for petabase-scale sequence alignment, identifying over 105 novel RNA viruses and expanding known species by an order of magnitude.

The paper identifies small circRNAs with self-cleaving ribozymes in metazoan transcriptomes and shows their biosynthesis involves tRNA ligases.