Virus Discovery Using Tick Cell Lines

• Published in: Evolutionary Bioinformatics Vol. 2016; no. S2; pp. 31 - 34
• Main Authors: Bell-Sakyi, Lesley, Attoui, Houssam
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Libertas Academica 15.09.2016; SAGE Publishing; Sage Publications Ltd. (UK); Libertas Academica (New Zealand)
• Subjects: Evolutionary biology; Genomics; Life Sciences; Short; endogenous virus; tick cell line; endogenous viral element; arbovirus

While ticks have been known to harbor and transmit pathogenic arboviruses for over 80 years, the application of high-throughput sequencing technologies has revealed that ticks also appear to harbor a diverse range of endogenous tick-only viruses belonging to many different families. Almost nothing i...