#viraldiversity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #viraldiversity, aggregated by home.social.
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Sentinels of the far south: Studying #Antarctic #Birds to Prevent Virus #Pandemics https://micro-bites.org/2023/08/16/sentinels-of-the-far-south-studying-antarctic-birds-to-prevent-virus-pandemics/
#Scavengers as Prospective Sentinels of #ViralDiversity: the Snowy #Sheathbill Virome as a Potential Tool for Monitoring #Virus Circulation, Lessons from 2 #AntarcticExpeditions https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03302-22
"Research, tourism, fishing... bring human activity to #Antarctica; meanwhile, #MigratoryBirds cyclically travel to more populous areas. Could these species be vectors for disease?"
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#introduction
Hello everyone!
I’m an associate prof at Virginia Tech studying viral diversity. Lately my group has been focusing on giant viruses, but we are also interested in other protist viruses, and the role of viral endogenization in host genome evolution.
#GiantViruses #ViralDiversity #TreeOfLife #Protists #Microbiology #Bioinformatics #Evolution #Virology #Genomics
Recently we have been examining the strange and complex genes encoded in giant virus genomes!
https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuad053