Untangling an insect's virome from its endogenous viral elements.
Paula Rozo-LopezWilliam BrewerSimon KäferMcKayla M MartinBenjamin J ParkerPublished in: BMC genomics (2023)
Our work shows that EVEs have led to the misidentification of aphid viruses from RNAseq data, and we argue that this is a widespread challenge for the study of viral diversity in insects.