Urbanization is rapidly transforming much of Southeast Asia, altering the structure and
function of the landscape, as well as the frequency and intensity of the interactions between …

Bats and rodents comprise two of the world's largest orders of mammals and the order
Chiroptera (bats) has been implicated as a major reservoir of coronaviruses in nature and a …

In April 2023, following the annual International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)
ratification vote on newly proposed taxa, the phylum Negarnaviricota was amended and …

Parasitic nematodes have an intimate, chronic and lifelong exposure to vertebrate tissues.
Here we mined 41 published parasitic nematode transcriptomes from vertebrate hosts and …

The subfamily Orthoparamyxovirinae is a group of single-stranded, negative-sense RNA
viruses that contains many human, animal, and zoonotic pathogens. While there are …

Emerging infectious diseases significantly threaten global public health and socioeconomic
security. The majority of emerging infectious disease outbreaks are caused by …

Blood-sucking ticks are obligate parasites and vectors of a variety of human and animal
viruses. Some tick-borne viruses have been identified as pathogens of infectious diseases in …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and SARS-CoV-2 have been
thought to originate from bat, but whether the cross-species transmission occurred directly …

Shrews being insectivores, serve as natural reservoirs for a wide array of zoonotic viruses,
including the recently discovered Langya henipavirus (LayV) in China in 2018. It is crucial to …

As viral genomic imprints in host genomes, endogenous viral elements (EVEs) shed light on
the deep evolutionary history of viruses, ancestral host ranges, and ancient viral–host …