Uncovering hundreds of exogenous and endogenous RNA viral RdRp sequences amongst uncharacterized sequences in public protein databases.

Virus Evol · 2025 · PMC12548735 · PMID 41143103

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near-significantno p-value reported

Non-RdRp sequences that share near-significant similarity with RdRp are also characterized.

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highly significantno p-value reported

These sequences are all from the same study into root nodules from chickpeas ( Cicer arietinum ) and have a highly significant TBLASTN hit (99% identity across 100% of the protein) against chickpea chromosome 7 ( AHII03000007.1 ), so it is very likely that these represent an EVE from the host of the bacteria that has been misclassified.

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