Fig. 1.

Defective RNAs are detected by virtue of their unique recombination junctions. Defective RNAs that have been previously characterized in FHV infections[14], [15] are formed by recombination within. (a) FHV RNA1 to form R1D1626 and (b) FHV RNA2 to form R2D675. These recombination events generate unique junction sequences, labeled a–i for reference in Fig. 2. Reads from the FHV-RNAseq data set were mapped to these sequences and are indicated underneath the schematic for each defective RNA to illustrate their mapping over the recombination junction sites.