MicrobiologyAlgal ResearchPeer-reviewed
A removable and cosmopolitan dsRNA Toti-like virus causes latent infection in a model diatom strain
Jiahuan Zhang, Chenjie Li, Xiaofeng Xiong…·Xiaobo Li
The paper identifies a dsRNA Totiviridae virus in two diatom strains, shows it can be removed to create virus-free lines, and suggests it causes latent infection rather than lytic infection.