The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps

CCS Tan, L van Dorp, F Balloux - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - nature.com
Most emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases stem from viruses that naturally
circulate in non-human vertebrates. When these viruses cross over into humans, they can …

Detection and Prevalence of Coronaviruses in European Bats: A Systematic Review

M Hemnani, PG da Silva, G Thompson, P Poeta… - EcoHealth, 2024 - Springer
Bats are known hosts for a wide range of coronaviruses (CoVs), including those that cause
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-1) and Middle East respiratory syndrome …

A potent pan-sarbecovirus neutralizing antibody resilient to epitope diversification

LE Rosen, MA Tortorici, A De Marco, D Pinto… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolution has resulted in
viral escape from clinically authorized monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), creating a need for …

Sarbecovirus RBD indels and specific residues dictating multi-species ACE2 adaptiveness

JY Si, YM Chen, YH Sun, MX Gu, ML Huang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Our comprehensive understanding of the multi-species ACE2 adaptiveness of
sarbecoviruses remains elusive, particularly for those with various receptor binding motif …

Microbial, holobiont, and Tree of Life eDNA/eRNA for enhanced ecological assessment

LSJ Cook, AG Briscoe, VG Fonseca, J Boenigk… - Trends in …, 2024 - cell.com
Microbial environmental DNA and RNA (collectively 'eNA') originate from a diverse and
abundant array of microbes present in environmental samples. These eNA signals, largely …

Alphacoronaviruses from bats captured in European Russia in 2015 and 2021 are closely related to those of Northern Europe

EV Korneenko, AE Samoilov, IK Chudinov… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Bats are considered the natural reservoirs of several viruses including
coronaviruses (CoVs), two genera of which, alpha-and betacoronaviruses, infect humans …

Molecular basis of convergent evolution of ACE2 receptor utilization among HKU5 coronaviruses

YJ Park, C Liu, J Lee, JT Brown, CB Ma, P Liu… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DPP4 was considered a canonical receptor for merbecoviruses until the recent discovery of
African bat-borne MERS-related coronaviruses using ACE2. The extent and diversity with …

[HTML][HTML] Survey of white-footed mice in Connecticut, USA reveals low SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and infection with divergent betacoronaviruses

R Earnest, AM Hahn, NM Feriancek, M Brandt… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diverse mammalian species display susceptibility to and infection with SARS-CoV-2.
Potential SARS-CoV-2 spillback into rodents is understudied despite their host role for …

Recombination analysis on the receptor switching event of MERS-CoV and its close relatives: implications for the emergence of MERS-CoV

JE Tolentino, S Lytras, J Ito, K Sato - Virology Journal, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background PlMERS-CoV is a coronavirus known to cause severe disease in
humans, taxonomically classified under the subgenus Merbecovirus. Recent findings …

[HTML][HTML] Increased Susceptibility of Rousettus aegyptiacus Bats to Respiratory SARS-CoV-2 Challenge Despite Its Distinct Tropism for Gut Epithelia in Bats

BP Mohl, C Blaurock, A Breithaupt, A Riek… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Increasing evidence suggests bats are the ancestral hosts of the majority of coronaviruses.
In general, coronaviruses primarily target the gastrointestinal system, while some strains …