Megan and I have been so busy that I have not posted anything here for a while. It is time we celebrate here the discovery of a new species of picornavirus in Threespine stickleback and of no less than six new RNA viruses in it cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus. You will find more here. This link will lead you to a “behind the paper” blog post that I wrote, untitled “A Leaky Russian Doll: Discovery of Viruses in a Parasitic Worm and Transmission to Parasitized Hosts“.

References:

Hahn MA*, Dheilly NM. 2019 Genome characterization, prevalence and transmission mode of a novel picronavirus associated with the Threespine Stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Journal of Virology 93(9), e02277-18 Link

Hahn MA*, Rosario K, Lucas P, Dheilly NM. 2020 Characterization of viruses in a tapeworm: phylogenetic position, vertical transmission, and transmission to the parasitized host.  ISME J   Link