Abstract

Archaea from acidic hot springs in Yellowstone National Park apparently harbor RNA viruses, according to Mark Young of Montana State University in Bozeman and his collaborators. “Scientists previously discovered DNA viruses of archaea, but before our work, no RNA viruses were discovered,” he says. “This was a big blank spot on the scientific map, but there's no biochemical reason for them not to exist.” Young spoke about this first RNA virus, which was identified indirectly via metagenomic analysis, during the 2012 annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists, held last June in Vancouver, British Columbia. Details appeared earlier this year in the February 29, 2012 Journal of Virology (doi: 10.1128/JVI.07196-11).

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