M. J. Tisza

Widespread Horizontal Gene Transfer Among Animal Viruses

This study explores horizontal gene transfer among animal viruses by analyzing sequencing data, revealing chimeric structures and new viral groups.

Phage-bacteria dynamics during the first years of life revealed by trans-kingdom marker gene analysis

This study analyzes phage and bacterial dynamics in early human life using longitudinal data from the TEDDY study, revealing individual-specific phage communities and ecological patterns correlated with bacterial hosts.

Idiopathic chronic diarrhea in rhesus macaques is not associated with enteric viral infections

This study investigates the association between enteric viral infections and idiopathic chronic diarrhea in rhesus macaques, finding no strong link between detected viruses and the condition.

A New Comprehensive Catalog of the Human Virome Reveals Hidden Associations with Chronic Diseases

The paper introduces Cenote-Taker 2, a tool that identifies over 50,000 unique human viruses and finds 1,700 virus-disease associations using metagenomic data.

Cenote-Taker 2 Democratizes Virus Discovery and Sequence Annotation

Cenote-Taker 2 identifies and annotates viral sequences from contigs, improving virome discovery and database curation.

Cellular life from the three domains and viruses are transcriptionally active in a hypersaline desert community

The paper investigates transcriptional activity in a hypersaline desert microbiome, revealing eukaryotes as primary producers and identifying active halophilic viruses.

Identification of Adomavirus Virion Proteins

This paper identifies virion proteins of adomaviruses, linking them to adenoviruses and adintoviruses, and suggests a shared evolutionary history among small DNA tumor viruses.

Adintoviruses: An Animal-Tropic Family of Midsize Eukaryotic Linear dsDNA (MELD) Viruses

The paper identifies a new family of animal-specific viruses, Adintoviridae, related to adenoviruses and retroviral integrases, found in animal genomes and metagenomes.

Discovery of several thousand highly diverse circular DNA viruses

The paper identifies and characterizes thousands of new circular DNA viruses from animal samples using a bioinformatics pipeline and artificial neural networks.