The hidden diversity of ancient bornaviral sequences from X and P genes in vertebrate genomes

• Published in: bioRxiv
• Main Authors: Garcia, Bea Clarise B., Mukai, Yahiro, Tomonaga, Keizo, Horie, Masayuki
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 13.09.2022
• Edition: 1.3
• Subjects: Microbiology

Endogenous bornavirus-like elements (EBLs) are heritable sequences derived from bornaviruses in vertebrate genomes that originate from transcripts of ancient bornaviruses. EBLs have been detected using sequence similarity searches such as tBLASTn, whose technical limitations may hinder the detection...