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Site-Specific Evolutionary Rate Shifts in HIV-1 and SIV

Viruses, 2020
Site-specific evolutionary rate shifts are defined as protein sites, where the rate of substitution has changed dramatically across the phylogeny.
Maoz Gelbart, Adi Stern
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Squirrelpox virus: assessing prevalence, transmission and environmental degradation [PDF]

, 2014
Red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) declined in Great Britain and Ireland during the last century, due to habitat loss and the introduction of grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis), which competitively exclude the red squirrel and act as a reservoir for ...
AC Scott, AD Middleton, AR Bharti, AW Sainsbury, AW Sainsbury, B Carroll, Christopher James Johnson, CJ McInnes, CJ McInnes, CM Bruemmer, Colin McInnes, CW Livingston, D Sweet, David Everest, David G. Tosh, DJ Everest, DJ Everest, DM Tompkins, ER Kallio, J Gurnell, Jaimie T. A. Dick, JP Duff, JP LaRose, JW Atkin, LA Wauters, Lisa M. Collins, Mike Scantlebury, Neil D. Warnock, Neil Reid, Nikki Marks, SP Rushton, VR Simpson, W. Ian Montgomery   +32 more
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A spectral survey of an ultra-hot Jupiter: Detection of metals in the transmission spectrum of KELT-9 b [PDF]

, 2019
Context: KELT-9 b exemplifies a newly emerging class of short-period gaseous exoplanets that tend to orbit hot, early type stars - termed ultra-hot Jupiters.
Allart, R., Bourrier, V., Cegla, H. M., Ehrenreich, D., Fisher, C., Grimm, S. L., Heng, Kevin, Hoeijmakers, H. J., Kitzmann, D., Lavie, B., Lovis, C., Nielsen, L. D., Patzer, A. B. C., Pepe, F. A., Pino, L., Rimmer, P. B., Seidel, J. V., Stock, J. W., Wyttenbach, A.   +18 more
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A new group of hepadnaviruses naturally infecting Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) [PDF]

, 1999
A high prevalence (42.6%) of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection was suspected in 195 formerly captive orangutans due to a large number of serum samples which cross-reacted with human HBV antigens.
Heeney, J.L., Heriyanto,, Swan, R.A., Verschoor, E.J., Warren, K.S.   +4 more
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One Health – an Ecological and Evolutionary Framework for tackling Neglected Zoonotic Diseases [PDF]

, 2015
Understanding the complex population biology and transmission ecology of multihost parasites has been declared as one of the major challenges of biomedical sciences for the 21st century and the Neglected Zoonotic Diseases (NZDs) are perhaps the most ...
Adamo, Akopyants, Anderson, Antia, Azevedo, Berry, Betson, Biswas, Boatin, Boissier, Chargui, Civetello, Cleaveland, Combes, Consortium* THG, Crichton, Criscione, Cutillas, Delgado, Detwiler, Dobson, Doby, Dunams-Morel, Eberhard, Fan, Faye, Fenton, Fenton, Fraga de Azevedo, Funk, Garba, Gaunt, Gelanew, Genis, Gibbs, Gibson, Gouvras, Gretillat, Grigg, Gupta, Hahn, Hahn, Hanelt, Hargrove, Haydon, Hotez, Hotez, Huyse, Huyse, Inpankaew, Johnson, Jolles, Kaushik, Kaushik, Keesing, Kelly, Kilpatrick, King, Klepac, Koukounari, Lamberton, Laval, Le, Leger, Lembo, Liang, Liese, Lloyd-Smith, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lu, Lustigman, Machado, Maia, Mathews, Mavarez, Messenger, Messenger, Miles, Molyneux, Moné, Muhanguzi, Muller-Graf, Mupfasoni, Norton, Pardo-Diaz, Parrish, Pedersen, Perez-Quintero, Ramiro, Randolph, Ravel, Robinson, Rogers, Rollinson, Rudge, Rudge, Rudge, Salkeld, Saroufim, Silva Oliveira, Smith, Steinauer, Strauss, Streicker, Streicker, Sturm, Taylor, Theron, Theron, Tomley, UNDP, Viana, Volf, Wang, Webby, Webster, Webster, Webster, Webster, Webster, Webster, Welburn, Welburn, Whitlock, WHO, Wood, Woolhouse, Woolhouse, Woolhouse, Woolhouse, Woolhouse, Yamane, Yamane, Zhou   +135 more
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Climate Variability and Ross River Virus Transmission in Townsville Region, Australia 1985 to 1996 [PDF]

, 2004
Background How climate variability affects the transmission of infectious diseases at a regional level remains unclear. In this paper, we assessed the impact of climate variation on the Ross River virus (RRv) transmission in the Townsville region ...
A. J. McMichael, Aaskov JG, Allard R, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Bowie C, Catalano R, Chatfield C, Checkley W, Curran M, Curriero FC, Doherty RL, Helfenstein U, Helfenstein U, Helfenstein U, Hennessy KJ, Kay BH, Liehne PF, Lindsay M, Lindsay MD, Lindsay MD, Mackenzie JS, McManus TJ, McMichael AJ, Nimmol JR, Russell RC, Shilu Tong, Shope RE, Tabachnick BG, Tong SL, Weinstein P, Wenbiao Hu, Whetton P   +31 more
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Conserved spike protein in Avastroviruses: A potential factor in cross-species transmission. [PDF]

Poult Sci
Avastroviruses (AAstVs) are important pathogens in avian species, with cross-species transmission being a critical factor in their evolutionary dynamics.
Wang Y, Li A, Ma H, Lan Y, Wang J, Wang X, Zhao L, Wu Q, Guo X.   +8 more
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Seroprevalence of Wenzhou virus in China

Biosafety and Health, 2020
Wenzhou virus (WENV) was first identified in rodents and Asian house shrews in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. However, little is known about the prevalence of WENV infections in humans in China.
Li Guo, Shasha Liu, Jingdong Song, Lianlian Han, Hu Zhang, Chao Wu, Conghui Wang, Hongli Zhou, Jianwei Wang   +8 more
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Poultry as a host for the zoonotic pathogen Campylobacter jejuni [PDF]

, 2012
Campylobacteriosis is the most reported foodborne gastroenteritic disease and poses a serious health burden in industrialized countries. Disease in humans is mainly caused by the zoonotic pathogen Campylobacter jejuni.
Haesebrouck, Freddy, Hermans, David, Heyndrickx, Marc, Martel, An, Messens, Winy, Pasmans, Frank, Rasschaert, Geertrui, Van Deun, Kim, Van Immerseel, Filip   +8 more
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Porcine Deltacoronaviruses: Origin, Evolution, Cross-Species Transmission and Zoonotic Potential

Pathogens, 2022
Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is an emerging enteropathogenic coronavirus of swine that causes acute diarrhoea, vomiting, dehydration and mortality in seronegative neonatal piglets.
Fanzhi Kong, Qiuhong Wang, Scott P. Kenney, Kwonil Jung, Anastasia N. Vlasova, Linda J. Saif   +5 more
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