Cetacean Morbillivirus, the most relevant pathogen impacting the health and conservation of cetaceans worldwide, has shown in recent years an apparently increased tendency to cross “interspecies barriers”, thereby giving rise to disease and mortality outbreaks in free-ranging dolphins and whales. This “Perspective article” deals with the evolutionary “trajectories” of this viral pathogen, supposedly originating from, or otherwise sharing a common progenitor with Rinderpest Virus, along with its journey from land to sea (and viceversa), mimicking that of cetaceans' terrestrial ancestors.
Cetacean morbillivirus: A land-to-sea journey and back?
Di Guardo G.
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
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2019-01-01
Abstract
Cetacean Morbillivirus, the most relevant pathogen impacting the health and conservation of cetaceans worldwide, has shown in recent years an apparently increased tendency to cross “interspecies barriers”, thereby giving rise to disease and mortality outbreaks in free-ranging dolphins and whales. This “Perspective article” deals with the evolutionary “trajectories” of this viral pathogen, supposedly originating from, or otherwise sharing a common progenitor with Rinderpest Virus, along with its journey from land to sea (and viceversa), mimicking that of cetaceans' terrestrial ancestors.File in questo prodotto:
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