If you already have a C. maenas nimavirus sequence, I could try to extract relevant reads it if you want a Dutch sequence.

Most of the viral reads were retroviruses (likely retrotransposons). Some of the contigs corresponding to viruses have a taxonomic assignment to Nimavirus indeed, somewhat related to Hemigrapsus takanoi nimavirus.

I meant no negative effect (sorry)

Except if I completely missed that discussion it in the manuscript, but there is likely a major (and probably massive) reporting bias in the literature against negative results (ie no negative results) for virus-insect interactions outcome.

Improved availability/accessibility could help us improve that, such as correcting the databases and continuing to build up our knowledge on EVEs.

Hence, it is also good for the taxonomy of viruses! How many EVEs are hidden in NCBI, posing as exogenous viral sequences from meta(transcriptomic/genomic) studies? Some even might have a binomial name! (😛)

Also to help virus discovery projects and avoid misclassification of endogenous elements as exogenous viruses, as we have previously discussed doi.org/10.1093/ve/v...