Divergent coronaviruses discovered in the virome of lamprey with reddening syndrome
Jessica A. Darnley, Stephanie J. Waller, Rebecca K. French, Riki Parata, Karthiga Kumanan, Luka Finn, Jonah L. Yick, Jane Kitson, Patrick Cahill, Ian Davidson, Ryan Hunter, Benjamin W. Neuman, Kate S. Hutson, Jemma L. Geoghegan · 2026
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Jessica Darnley and a large team sequence the viruses living in lampreys struck by a reddening disease, in a study published in 2026. The pouched lamprey is culturally and ecologically important in New Zealand, and the syndrome, marked by skin bleeding and death, had no known cause. The team compared the RNA viruses of twenty-eight lampreys from New Zealand and Tasmania, sick and apparently healthy.
They found eight fish RNA viruses, seven of them new to science, including two highly divergent coronaviruses, one with a genome split in two segments. Sick lampreys carried far more coronavirus RNA, though healthy ones carried the viruses too, so stress or coinfection may decide who falls ill. The survey also expands the viral family tree of an ancient vertebrate line.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jessica A. Darnley, Stephanie J. Waller, Rebecca K. French, Riki Parata, Karthiga Kumanan, Luka Finn, Jonah L. Yick, Jane Kitson, Patrick Cahill, Ian Davidson, Ryan Hunter, Benjamin W. Neuman, Kate S. Hutson, Jemma L. Geoghegan |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |