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ArticleVirus evolution2025

An orphan viral genome with unclear evolutionary status sheds light on a distinct lineage of flavi-like viruses infecting plants.

Zhongtian Xu, Luping Zheng, Fangluan Gao, Yiyuan Li, Zongtao Sun, Jianping Chen, Chuanxi Zhang, Junmin Li, Xifeng Wang

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Article in Virus evolution, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Zhongtian XuState Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of Ministry of Agriculture and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
Luping ZhengInstitute of Plant Virology, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.
Fangluan GaoInstitute of Plant Virology, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9031-9944
Yiyuan LiState Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of Ministry of Agriculture and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
Zongtao SunState Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of Ministry of Agriculture and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
Jianping ChenState Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of Ministry of Agriculture and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3849-4080
Chuanxi ZhangState Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of Ministry of Agriculture and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
Junmin LiState Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of Ministry of Agriculture and Zhejiang Province, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8385-8912
Xifeng WangInstitute of Western Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changji 831100, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4982-8947

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advancements in high-throughput sequencing and associated bioinformatics methods have significantly expanded the RNA virus repertoire, including novel viruses with highly divergent genomes encoding "orphan" proteins that apparently lack homologous sequences. This absence of homologs in routine sequence similarity search complicates their taxonomic classification and raises a fundamental question: Do these orphan viral genomes represent

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endornaviridaeflavi-like virusflaviviridaeSnake River Alfalfa virus

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PMID39839679
PMCPMC11749231

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