Article
Evolution of hantaviruses: co-speciation with reservoir hosts for more than 100 MYR.
Virus research - 17 Jul 2014
Plyusnin Alexander, Sironen Tarja
Abstract excerpt
The most recent (9th) Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) lists 23 established and 30 provisional species in the genus Hantavirus (family Bunyaviridae) (Plyusnin et al., 2012). These virus species are harbored by altogether 51 species of rodents, shrews and moles and thus in most cases it is a relationship of "one hantavirus-one host". Such a tight bond between the two, in...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Chiroptera
- Genetic Variation
- Orthohantavirus
- Hantavirus Infections
- Host Specificity
- Host-Pathogen Interactions
- Moles
- Phylogeny
- Rodent Diseases
- Rodentia