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Finding Rna-Dna Hybrid Viruses, Jeremy Filip, Geoffery S. Diemer, Kenneth M. Stedman
Finding Rna-Dna Hybrid Viruses, Jeremy Filip, Geoffery S. Diemer, Kenneth M. Stedman
Student Research Symposium
Until extremely recently it was thought that recombination between DNA and RNA viruses was practically nonexistent. The discovery of the "RNA-DNA Hybrid Virus" (RDHV) genome in a metavirome from a hightemperature acidic lake changed this view (Diemer and Stedman, 2012). We, and others, have discovered multiple examples of this recombination "hiding in plain sight" in multiple both published and unpublished metagenomes from many different environments and recent publications (Rosario et al., 2012 a Tae Woong Whon et al, 2012, Mitsuhiro Yoshida et al., 2013, and several others through personal communication). Comparing the proteins within these hybrid viruses against each other …