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Genome features of rhabdoviruses from freshwater mussels provide new evidence of viral genome diversification and suggest how these viruses originally jumped between mussels and fish.
, which until now were only known to infect finfish. Genome features of both viruses provide new evidence of how rhabdoviruses evolved their extraordinary variability. Freshwater mussel larvae attach to fish and feed on tissues and blood, which may explain how rhabdoviruses originally jumped between mussels and fish. The significance of this research is that it improves our understanding of rhabdovirus ecology and evolution, shedding new light on these important viruses and the diseases they cause.
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Goldberg et al. (2023) studied Rhabdovirus evolution. Genome features of rhabdoviruses from freshwater mussels provide new evidence of viral genome diversification and suggest how these viruses originally jumped between mussels and fish.
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