Hongfei Chi

Unraveling the diversity, function, and virus–host interactions of archaeal proviruses

Abstract Archaea, the third domain of life, play critical roles in global biogeochemical cycles. However, archaeal proviruses integrated into host genomes remain largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we conducted a large-scale mining of genomes spanning all presently known 21 archaeal phyla for their proviruses. We i...