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Obelisks: They Are Living In You

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Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes
Here, we describe “obelisks,” a class of heritable RNA elements sharing several properties: (1) apparently circular RNA ∼1 kb genome assemblies, (2) predicted rod-like genome-wide secondary structures, and (3) open reading frames encoding a novel “Oblin” protein superfamily. 

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