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Decoding the RNA viromes in rodent lungs provides new insight into the origin and evolutionary patterns of rodent-borne pathogens in Mainland Southeast Asia

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Wu, Zhiqiang, Han, Yelin, Liu, Bo, Li, Hongying, Zhu, Guangjian, Latinne, Alice, Dong, Jie, Sun, Lilin +20 more·2021·Microbiome

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Background: As the largest group of mammalian species, which are also widely distributed all over the world, rodents are the natural reservoirs for many diverse zoonotic viruses. A comprehensive understanding of the core virome of diverse rodents should therefore assist in efforts to reduce the risk of future emergence or re-emergence of rodent-borne zoonotic pathogens. Results: This study aimed to describe the viral range that could be detected in the lungs of rodents from Mainland Southeast Asia. Lung samples were collected from 3284 rodents and insectivores of the orders Rodentia, Scandentia, and Eulipotyphla in eighteen provinces of Thailand, Lao PDR, and Cambodia throughout 2006–2018. Meta-transcriptomic analysis was used to outline the unique spectral characteristics of the mammalian viruses within these lungs and the ecological and genetic imprints of the novel viruses. Many mammalian- or arthropod-related viruses from distinct evolutionary lineages were reported for the first time in these species, and viruses related to known pathogens were characterized for their genomic and evolutionary characteristics, host species, and locations. Conclusions: These results expand our understanding of the core viromes of rodents and insectivores from Mainland Southeast Asia and suggest that a high diversity of viruses remains to be found in rodent species of this area. These findings, combined with our previous virome data from China, increase our knowledge of the viral community in wildlife and arthropod vectors in emerging disease hotspots of East and Southeast Asia.

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Wu, Z., Han, Y., Liu, B., Li, H., Zhu, G., Latinne, A., Dong, J., Sun, L., Su, H., Liu, L., Du, J., Zhou, S., Chen, M., Kritiyakan, A., Jittapalapong, S., Chaisiri, K., Buchy, P., Duong, V., Yang, J., Jiang, J., Xu, X., Zhou, H., Yang, F., Irwin, D. M., Morand, S., Daszak, P., Wang, J., & Jin, Q.
Affiliations
  • Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CN)
  • EcoHealth Alliance (US)
  • Wildlife Conservation Society (US)
  • Kasetsart University (TH)
  • Mahidol University (TH)
  • Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (KH)
  • Yunnan Institute of Parasitic Diseases (CN)
  • University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author
Jin, Qi
Venue
Microbiome
Published
2021-01-21
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
18-18
ISSN
2049-2618 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3120632188
Cited by
92
References
99
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 16
FWCI
15.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Microbiome (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • TSpace (University of Toronto) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (81772228)
  • Mega-projects of Science Research for the thirteenth Five-Year Plan (2018ZX10101001)
  • CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2016-I2M-1-014 and 2017-I2M-B&R-12)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Virology and Viral Diseases
Keywords
emerging infectious diseases, viral evolution, novel virus discovery, insectivores, arboviruses, Mainland Southeast Asia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia
MeSH terms
Virome, Animals, Asia, Southeastern, Insecta, Lung, RNA, Viral, Rodentia

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