Epidemiological Dynamics of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the Horn of Africa: The Role of Virus Diversity and Animal Movement [PDF]
Viruses, 2023 The Horn of Africa is a large area of arid and semi-arid land, holding about 10% of the global and 40% of the entire African livestock population. The region’s livestock production system is mainly extensive and pastoralist.
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Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence. [PDF]
Nat Rev Microbiol, 2020 Most viral pathogens in humans have animal origins and arose through cross-species transmission. Over the past 50 years, several viruses, including Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-
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Virus diversity and activity is driven by snowmelt and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem. [PDF]
Microbiome, 2023 Background Viruses impact nearly all organisms on Earth, including microbial communities and their associated biogeochemical processes. In soils, highly diverse viral communities have been identified, with a global distribution seemingly driven by ...
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In-depth study of tomato and weed viromes reveals undiscovered plant virus diversity in an agroecosystem. [PDF]
Microbiome, 2023 Background In agroecosystems, viruses are well known to influence crop health and some cause phytosanitary and economic problems, but their diversity in non-crop plants and role outside the disease perspective is less known. Extensive virome explorations
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Virus diversity and interactions with hosts in deep-sea hydrothermal vents. [PDF]
Microbiome, 2022 Background The deep sea harbors many viruses, yet their diversity and interactions with hosts in hydrothermal ecosystems are largely unknown. Here, we analyzed the viral composition, distribution, host preference, and metabolic potential in different ...
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Virus diversity, wildlife-domestic animal circulation and potential zoonotic viruses of small mammals, pangolins and zoo animals. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2023 Wildlife is reservoir of emerging viruses. Here we identified 27 families of mammalian viruses from 1981 wild animals and 194 zoo animals collected from south China between 2015 and 2022, isolated and characterized the pathogenicity of eight viruses ...
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Chirohepevirus from Bats: Insights into Hepatitis E Virus Diversity and Evolution. [PDF]
Viruses, 2022 Homologs of the human hepatitis E virus (HEV) have been identified in more than a dozen animal species. Some of them have been evidenced to cross species barriers and infect humans.
Wang B, Yang XL.
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Mammal virus diversity estimates are unstable due to accelerating discovery effort. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2022 Host-virus association data form the backbone of research into eco-evolutionary drivers of viral diversity and host-level zoonotic risk. However, knowledge of the wildlife virome is inherently constrained by historical discovery effort, and there are ...
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Revealing RNA virus diversity and evolution in unicellular algae transcriptomes. [PDF]
Virus Evol, 2021 Remarkably little is known about the diversity and evolution of RNA viruses in unicellular eukaryotes. We screened a total of 570 transcriptomes from the Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP) project that encompasses a wide
Charon J, Murray S, Holmes EC.
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Unmapped RNA Virus Diversity in Termites and their Symbionts. [PDF]
Viruses, 2020 Despite their ecological importance, nothing is known about the diversity and abundance of RNA viruses in termites (Termitoidae). We used a metatranscriptomics approach to determine the RNA virome structure of 50 diverse species of termite that differ in
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