Hiroshi Shimoda

This study compares how Oz virus and Dhori virus polymerases regulate RNA synthesis across genome segments using minigenome systems, revealing differences in promoter activity based on distal duplex sequence variations.

This study establishes a reverse genetics system to recover infectious Oz virus from cloned cDNA, demonstrating efficient viral replication comparable to wild-type.

The paper identifies a viral protein with high homology to human MHC class I molecules and traces its evolutionary origin through horizontal gene transfer.

The paper identifies long, conserved Entomopoxvirus-like sequences in human centromeric and pericentromeric regions using the T2T genome.

This study demonstrates heritable endogenization of an RNA virus, EMCV, in laboratory mice, showing viral RNA is reverse transcribed and transmitted through the germline.