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

• Published in: Virus evolution Vol. 9; no. 1; p. vead038
• Main Authors: Garcia, Bea Clarise B, Mukai, Yahiro, Tomonaga, Keizo, Horie, Masayuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: UK Oxford University Press 2023
• Subjects: Genes; Genomes; endogenous viral elements; read-through transcript; fusion gene; endogenous bornavirus-like elements; bornavirus

Abstract 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...