A majority of emerging infectious diseases are of zoonotic origin. Metagenomic Next-
Generation Sequencing (mNGS) has been employed to identify uncommon and novel …

Highlights•The role of birds in cross-species transmission and emergence of novel viruses
such as avian influenza A viruses are discussed.•The novel avian viruses identified between …

Birds are frequent sources of emerging human infectious diseases. Viral particles were
enriched from the feces of 51 wild urban pigeons (Columba livia) from Hong Kong and …

Recent advances in sequencing technologies have transformed the field of virus discovery
and virome analysis. Once mostly confined to the traditional Sanger sequencing based …

Viruses from Picornaviridae family are known pathogens of poultry, although the information
on their occurrence and pathogenicity in pigeons is scarce. In this research, efforts are made …

Viral genomes have evolved to maximize their potential of overcoming host defense
mechanisms and to induce a variety of disease syndromes. Structurally, a genome of a virus …

Megriviruses have been identified from fecal samples in wild pigeons in Hong Kong (China)
and Hungary. In this study, the genomic sequences of pigeon Megriviruses (PiMeVs) were …

Despite the importance of the poultry gut, remarkably little is known about the complex gut
microbial community. Enteric disease syndromes such as runting-stunting syndrome in …

The use of next generation sequencing (NGS) to identify novel viral sequences from
eukaryotic tissue samples is challenging. Issues can include the low proportion and copy …

There is a great deal of interest in characterizing the complex microbial communities in the
poultry gut, and in understanding the effects of these dynamic communities on poultry …