Endogenous Nege-like Viral Elements in Arthropod Genomes Reveal Virus-host Coevolution and Ancient History of Two Plant Virus Families

Overview

Journal J Virol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Date 2024 Aug 30

PMID 39212930

Authors

Gang Lu

Zhuang-Xin Ye

Yu-Hua Qi

Jia-Bao Lu

Qian-Zhuo Mao

Ji-Chong Zhuo

Hai-Jian Huang

Yu-Juan He

Yi-Yuan Li

Zhong-Tian Xu

Jian-Ping Chen

Chuan-Xi Zhang

Jun-Min Li

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Abstract

Importance: Although negevirus is phylogenetically related to plant virus, the evolutionary history of negevirus-host and its relationship with plant virus remain largely unknown. In this study, we used endogenous nege-like viral elements (ENVEs) as the molecular fossil records to investigate the history of nege-like viral infection in arthropod hosts and the evolution of two related plant virus families ( and ). Our results showed the infection of nege-like viruses for over 60 My during the arthropod evolution. ENVEs highly homologous to viral sequences in and were present in a wide range of arthropod genomes but were absent in plant genomes, indicating that plant viruses in these two families possibly evolved from the nege-like virus ancestor through cross-species horizontal virus transmission. Our findings provide a new perspective on the virus-host coevolution and the origins of plant viruses.

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