Developing an empirical model for spillover and emergence: Orsay virus host range in Caenorhabditis

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A lack of tractable experimental systems in which to test hypotheses about the ecological and evolutionary drivers of disease spillover and emergence has limited our understanding of these processes. Here we introduce a promising system: Caenorhabditis hosts and Orsay virus, a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus that naturally infects C. elegans . We assayed species across the Caenorhabditis tree and found...

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