The family Polyomaviridae encompasses non-enveloped viruses with a circular dsDNA
genome that is typically approximately 5000 bp in length. Originally isolated from mammals …

Cancer is ubiquitous in wildlife, affecting animals from bivalves to pachyderms and
cetaceans. Reports of increasing frequency demonstrate that neoplasia is associated with …

Polyomaviruses are a family of DNA tumor viruses that are known to infect mammals and
birds. To investigate the deeper evolutionary history of the family, we used a combination of …

The microbiome of wild Mus musculus (house mouse), a globally distributed invasive pest
that resides in close contact with humans in urban centers, is largely unexplored. Here, we …

Abstract BACKGROUND The Norway rat Rattus norvegicus is an important reservoir of
various zoonotic pathogens, such as cowpox virus and Leptospira, but also for agents of no …

As the phylogenetic organization of mammalian polyomaviruses is complex and currently
incompletely resolved, we aimed at a deeper insight into their evolution by identifying …

Shrews (family Soricidae) have already been reported to host microorganisms pathogenic
for humans. In an effort to search for additional infectious agents with zoonotic potential, we …

Orthohantaviruses are re-emerging rodent-borne pathogens distributed all over the world.
Here, we report the isolation of a Puumala orthohantavirus (PUUV) strain from bank voles …

Emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases of wildlife origin have led pre-emptive
pathogen surveillances in animals to be a public health priority. Rodents and shrews are …

Hamster polyomavirus (Mesocricetus auratus polyomavirus 1, HaPyV) was discovered as
one of the first rodent polyomaviruses at the end of the 1960s in a colony of Syrian hamsters …