The Ohio State University: College of Arts and Sciences

A Trove of New Viruses Identified in Publicly Available Microbial Genomes

Mining public microbial genomes for viral-like sequences, researchers at the Sullivan lab identified a number of new microbial viruses (doubling the number of known genera), described in a study published in eLife. Nature Reviews Microbiology, August 14, 2015 WIRED, September…