A new preprint in collaboration with Toni Luque from U. Miami describes our accidental discovery of a novel genetic element that looks suspiciously like a virus but does not resemble anything else we've seen before

Above Figure 1 of our preprint - a circular genome accidentally discovered while searching for microviruses, ubiquitously found in the world's ocean and encoding virus-like protrusion proteins. We don't know what it is (yet)! 

We describe our findings in an early preprint on bioarxiv - A novel mobile genetic element with virus-like characteristics is widespread in the world's oceans