The COVID-19 pandemic has given the study of virus evolution and ecology new relevance.
Although viruses were first identified more than a century ago, we likely know less about …

Identifying the animal reservoirs from which zoonotic viruses will likely emerge is central to
understanding the determinants of disease emergence. Accordingly, there has been an …

Adaptive radiations are generated through a complex interplay of biotic and abiotic factors.
Although adaptive radiations have been widely studied in the context of animal and plant …

The flavivirids (family Flaviviridae) are a group of positive-sense RNA viruses that include
well-documented agents of human disease. Despite their importance and ubiquity, the …

The discovery of Hantaan virus as an etiologic agent of hemorrhagic fever with renal
syndrome in South Korea in 1978 led to identification of related pathogenic and …

Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing (mNGS) allows the evaluation of complex
microbial communities, avoiding isolation and cultivation of each microbial species, and …

Astroviruses are non-enveloped, single-stranded RNA viruses that infect mammalian and
avian species. In humans, astrovirus infections are one of the most common causes of …

The official classification of newly discovered or long-known unassigned viruses by the
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) requires the deposition of coding …

The gut microbiota is now recognised as a key target for improving aquaculture profit and
sustainability, but we still lack insights into the activity of microbes in fish mucosal surfaces …

European perch (Perca fluviatilis) are increasingly farmed as a human food source. Viral
infections of European perch remain largely unexplored, thereby putting farm populations at …