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"Frozen evolution" of an RNA virus suggests accidental release as a potential cause of arbovirus re-emergence

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

A paradigm for virus-host coevolution: sequential counter-adaptations between endogenous and exogenous retroviruses

scientific article (publication date: November 2007)

A virus reveals population structure and recent demographic history of its carnivore host

scientific article

An Invasive Mammal (the Gray Squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis) Commonly Hosts Diverse and Atypical Genotypes of the Zoonotic Pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Analysis of the long control region of bovine papillomavirus type 1 associated with sarcoids in equine hosts indicates multiple cross-species transmission events and phylogeographical structure

scientific article

Application of high-throughput sequencing to whole rabies viral genome characterisation and its use for phylogenetic re-evaluation of a raccoon strain incursion into the province of Ontario.

scientific article

Assembling evidence for identifying reservoirs of infection

scientific article published on 11 April 2014

Bacterial Genomics Reveal the Complex Epidemiology of an Emerging Pathogen in Arctic and Boreal Ungulates.

scientific article

Behavioural and physiological adaptations to low-temperature environments in the common frog, Rana temporaria

scientific article

Bluetongue virus spread in Europe is a consequence of climatic, landscape and vertebrate host factors as revealed by phylogeographic inference

scientific article published in October 2017

Carnivore Parvovirus Ecology in the Serengeti Ecosystem: Vaccine Strains Circulating and New Host Species Identified

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Combining genomics and epidemiology to analyse bi-directional transmission of in a multi-host system

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Contrasting selective patterns across the segmented genome of bluetongue virus in a global reassortment hotspot

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Correction: Dengue in Java, Indonesia: Relevance of Mosquito Indices as Risk Predictors.

scientific article published on 26 April 2016

Demographic and environmental drivers of metagenomic viral diversity in vampire bats

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Dengue in Java, Indonesia: Relevance of Mosquito Indices as Risk Predictors

scientific article

Distinct haplotype structure at the innate immune receptor Toll-like receptor 2 across bank vole populations and lineages in Europe

Diversification of mammalian deltaviruses by host shifting

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Dynamics of viral index infections in novel hosts

scientific article published on 11 April 2020

Effects of conservation management of landscapes and vertebrate communities on Lyme borreliosis risk in the United Kingdom. ⬇️

scientific article

Elucidating the phylodynamics of endemic rabies virus in eastern Africa using whole-genome sequencing

scientific article

Emergence of divergent Zaire ebola virus strains in Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2007 and 2008

scientific article published on November 2011

Envelope variants from women recently infected with clade A human immunodeficiency virus type 1 confer distinct phenotypes that are discerned by competition and neutralization experiments.

scientific article

Epidemiology, genetic diversity, and evolution of endemic feline immunodeficiency virus in a population of wild cougars

scientific article

Evolutionary dynamics and spatial genetic structure of epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus in the eastern United States

scientific article

Examining effects of persistent retroviral infection on fitness and pathogen susceptibility in a natural feline host

article published in 2006

Factors associated with pathogen seroprevalence and infection in Rocky Mountain cougars

scientific article published on July 2006

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) env recombinants are common in natural infections

scientific article

Feline immunodeficiency virus env gene evolution in experimentally infected cats

scientific article

Full Genome Sequence and sfRNA Interferon Antagonist Activity of Zika Virus from Recife, Brazil

scientific article (publication date: October 2016)

Genetic consequences of sex-biased dispersal in a solitary carnivore: Yellowstone cougars.

scientific article

Genome Sequences of Five African Swine Fever Virus Genotype IX Isolates from Domestic Pigs in Uganda

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

Genome-Wide Diversity and Phylogeography of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Canadian Dairy Cattle

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Genomic analysis of the multi-host pathogen Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae reveals extensive recombination as well as the existence of three generalist clades with wide geographic distribution

scientific article

Geographic Range Overlap Rather than Phylogenetic Distance Explains Rabies Virus Transmission among Closely Related Bat Species

scientific article published on 29 October 2022

Geography but not alternative host species explain the spread of raccoon rabies virus in Vermont

scientific article published on 26 June 2018

Heterogeneity in the abundance and distribution of Ixodes ricinus and Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) in Scotland: implications for risk prediction

scientific article

Host relatedness and landscape connectivity shape pathogen spread in the puma, a large secretive carnivore

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Infectious disease modeling and the dynamics of transmission.

scientific article published on January 2007

Isolates of Zaire ebolavirus from wild apes reveal genetic lineage and recombinants

scholarly article

Landscape attributes governing local transmission of an endemic zoonosis: rabies virus in domestic dogs

scientific article published on 23 December 2017

Limitations of variable number of tandem repeat typing identified through whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis on a national and herd level

scientific article

Local adaptation with high gene flow: temperature parameters drive adaptation to altitude in the common frog (Rana temporaria).

scientific article

Measurably evolving pathogens in the genomic era

scientific article

Mitochondrial DNA diversity, genetic structure, and demographic history of the Neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis) in Mexico

scientific article published in 2015

Molecular evolutionary signatures reveal the role of host ecological dynamics in viral disease emergence and spread

scientific article published on 04 February 2013

No net effect of host density on tick‐borne disease hazard due to opposing roles of vector amplification and pathogen dilution

scientific article published in 2022

Pandemic human viruses cause decline of endangered great apes.

scientific article

Phylogenetic characterisation of naturally occurring feline immunodeficiency virus in the United Kingdom.

scientific article

Practical and effective diagnosis of animal anthrax in endemic low-resource settings

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Processes Underlying Rabies Virus Incursions across US-Canada Border as Revealed by Whole-Genome Phylogeography.

scientific article

Rabies virus in raccoons, Ohio, 2004.

scientific article published on April 2008

Rapid evolution of the env gene leader sequence in cats naturally infected with feline immunodeficiency virus

scientific article

Rapid in-country sequencing of whole virus genomes to inform rabies elimination programmes

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Recent common ancestry of Ebola Zaire virus found in a bat reservoir

scientific article published in October 2006

Relative abundance of Mycobacterium bovis molecular types in cattle: a simulation study of potential epidemiological drivers.

scientific article

Serologic survey for viral and bacterial infections in western populations of Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis).

scientific article published on October 2002

Spatial analysis of feline immunodeficiency virus infection in cougars

scientific article

Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of the Introduction of Hepatitis C Virus into Scotland and Its Subsequent Regional Transmission

scientific article

The Importance of Socio-Economic Versus Environmental Risk Factors for Reported Dengue Cases in Java, Indonesia

scientific article

The landscape genetics of infectious disease emergence and spread

scientific article

The molecular biology and evolution of feline immunodeficiency viruses of cougars

scientific article published on 19 January 2008

The population and landscape genetics of the European badger (Meles meles) in Ireland

article

The role of viral evolution in rabies host shifts and emergence

scientific article

Use of bacterial whole-genome sequencing to investigate local persistence and spread in bovine tuberculosis

scientific article

Using genetic variation to infer associations with climate in the common frog, Rana temporaria.

scientific article

Using host traits to predict reservoir host species of rabies virus

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Using non-invasive metagenomics to characterize viral communities from wildlife

scientific article published on 19 October 2018

Using whole genome sequencing to investigate transmission in a multi-host system: bovine tuberculosis in New Zealand

scientific article

Variation in the ACE2 receptor has limited utility for SARS-CoV-2 host prediction

scientific article published on 23 November 2022

Viral particles of endogenous betaretroviruses are released in the sheep uterus and infect the conceptus trophectoderm in a transspecies embryo transfer model.

scientific article

Virulence mismatches in index hosts shape the outcomes of cross-species transmission

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Wave-like spread of Ebola Zaire

scientific article

What Is Missing in Amphibian Decline Research: Insights from Ecological Sensitivity Analysis

article

Whole genome sequencing reveals local transmission patterns of Mycobacterium bovis in sympatric cattle and badger populations

scientific article

Widespread Reassortment Shapes the Evolution and Epidemiology of Bluetongue Virus following European Invasion ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

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