Conferences are a pivotal part of the scientific enterprise, but large in-person meetings have
several disadvantages. As the pandemic experience has shown, online meetings are a …

… Humberto studies the interface of viruses and crops from a holobiont perspective. Humberto
… Humberto is an ambassador for eLife and ASAPbio advocating the use of preprints in life …

10.7554/eLife.36495.001 Fireflies and their luminous courtships have inspired centuries of
scientific study. Today firefly luciferase is widely used in biotechnology, but the evolutionary …

Mitoviruses have small RNA(+) genomes, replicate in mitochondria, and have been shown
to infect only fungi to date. For this report, sequences that appear to represent nearly …

Scientific conferences provide valuable opportunities for researchers across career stages
and disciplines to present their latest work and to network with their peers. The advent of the …

The golden orb-weaver spider Nephila clavipes, known for its sexual size dimorphism, is
abundant and widespread in the New World. The first annotated genome of orb-weaver spiders…

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small ∼20–24 nt species of non-coding RNAs that modulate plant
gene expression by means of gene silencing through sequence-specific inhibition of target …

Macrophomina phaseolina is a soil-borne fungal pathogen with a wide host range that causes
charcoal rot in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. Control of the disease is a challenge, due …

Here, we report the identification and characterization of two novel viruses associated with
bird’s-foot trefoil. Virus sequences related to those of enamoviruses (ssRNA (+); Luteoviridae; …

Fungi constituting the Entomophthora muscae species complex (members of subphylum
Entomophthoromycotina, phylum Zoopagamycota) commonly kill their insect hosts and …