Pangolins are endangered animals in urgent need of protection. Identifying and cataloguing
the viruses carried by pangolins is a logical approach to evaluate the range of potential …

White spot syndrome virus (WSSV), the etiological agent of white spot disease (WSD), is a
significant pathogen affecting shrimp farming industry worldwide. White spot syndrome virus …

White spot syndrome virus (WSSV), the etiological agent of white spot disease (WSD), is a
significant pathogen affecting shrimp farming industry worldwide. White spot syndrome virus …

Motivation Bacteriophages (aka phages), which mainly infect bacteria, play key roles in the
biology of microbes. As the most abundant biological entities on the planet, the number of …

Background Viruses play critical roles in the marine environment because of their
interactions with an extremely broad range of potential hosts. Many studies of viruses in …

The growing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens has led to a better understanding
of the underlying processes that lead to this expansion. Intensive pig farms are considered …

A novel Asfarvirus-like virus is proposed as the etiological agent responsible for mass
mortality in abalone. The disease, called abalone amyotrophia, originally was recognized in …

Over the past 40 years, knowledge of infectious diseases in abalone has gone from nearly
absent to prolific, largely as products of investigations of mass mortality events in both wild …

Hemocyanins (Hc), the main protein components of hemolymph in invertebrates, are not
only involved in oxygen transport but also linked to non-specific immune responses. In this …

Rodents are a known reservoir for extensive zoonotic viruses, and also possess a
propensity to roost in human habitation. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and catalogue …