Virome metatranscriptomic profiling of birch pollen reveals a diverse viral community

Sahar Nouri, Denis Kutnjak, Anja Pecman, Hector Fernandez Colino, Carmen Büttner, Susanne von Bargen, Artemis Rumbou · 2026

Read Virome metatranscriptomic profiling of birch pollen reveals a diverse viral community by Sahar Nouri, Denis Kutnjak, Anja Pecman, Hector Fernandez Colino, Carmen Büttner, Susanne von Bargen, Artemis Rumbou (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13572724.txt.

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Sahar Nouri and six co-authors read the full set of viruses in birch pollen by its gene text. Their study, from two thousand twenty-six, shows a rich mixed crowd.

Viruses are now seen as part of plant life, yet the seed dust of trees was bare of study. Birch pours out vast wind-borne pollen that can roam far. It may bear viruses from the tree or its clinging microbes. The team took pollen from trees in and round a great city. Pooled dust from a past year was read in depth. Single-tree dust from a fresh year was checked by a quick test. One virus's text was walked out to near full length.

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CREATORSahar Nouri, Denis Kutnjak, Anja Pecman, Hector Fernandez Colino, Carmen Büttner, Susanne von Bargen, Artemis Rumbou
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE72 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13572724

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