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Aug 2026
The RNA virome of early metazoans sheds light on long-term virus-host relationships
These findings expand the known diversity and host range of several virus groups, and shed light on virus evolution in early metazoans, demonstrating both host jumping within aquatic environments and virus host-associations that may span the entirety of animal evolution.
Ayda Susana Ortiz-Baez, Jonathon C. O. Mifsud, Jasper W. Schwarz et al.
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