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 …

Data that catalogue viral diversity on Earth have been fragmented across sources,
disciplines, formats, and various degrees of open sharing, posing challenges for research …

Game animals are wildlife species traded and consumed as food and are potential
reservoirs for SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. We performed a meta-transcriptomic analysis of …

Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, but challenges in detecting,
isolating, and classifying unknown viruses have prevented exhaustive surveys of the global …

Background Rodents represent around 43% of all mammalian species, are widely
distributed, and are the natural reservoirs of a diverse group of zoonotic viruses, including …

Background Wild birds may harbor and transmit viruses that are potentially pathogenic to
humans, domestic animals, and other wildlife. Results Using the viral metagenomic …

Viruses are considered to be the most abundant biological entities on earth. They also
display striking genetic diversity as emphatically demonstrated by the recent advances of …

Viruses are ubiquitous. They infect almost every species and are probably the most
abundant biological entities on the planet, yet they are excluded from the Tree of Life (ToL) …

Bats, rodents, and shrews are the most important animal sources of human infectious
diseases. However, the evolution and transmission of viruses among them remain largely …

A renaissance of virus research is taking centre stage in biology. Empirical data from the last
decade indicate the important roles of viruses, both in the evolution of all life and as …