Yong-Zhen Zhang
After more than 20 years in the National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention of China CDC, Yong-Zhen Zhang has transferred to Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & School of Life Science & Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Fudan University. Infectious illness, virology, and evolutionary biology are some of the fields in which Yong-Zhen conducts study. Virus discovery, genetics, evolution, ecology, and emerging infectious illness are the core topics of his current research.
The current state of knowledge of RNA viral biodiversity is skewed and incomplete, owing to a concentration on culturable or disease-causing viruses. We report the finding of 1,445 RNA viruses in the transcriptomes of over 220 invertebrate species from nine animal phyla, including several that are sufficiently diverse to form new families...
We know less about viruses than we do about any other living thing. Fortunately, metagenomics has resulted in a tremendous growth of the virosphere's known variety. In this paper, we highlight how metagenomics has transformed our knowledge of RNA viruses and outline some of the remaining problems, such as characterising the "dark matter" of divergent viral genomes...
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