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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Highly diverse morbillivirus-related paramyxoviruses in wild fauna of the southwestern Indian ocean Islands: Evidence of exchange between introduced and endemic small mammals
Journal of Virology, Volume 88, No. 15, Year 2014
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The Paramyxoviridae form an increasingly diverse viral family, infecting a wide variety of different hosts. In recent years, they have been linked to disease emergence in many different animal populations and in humans. Bats and rodents have been identified as major animal populations capable of harboring paramyxoviruses, and host shifting between these animals is likely to be an important driving factor in the underlying evolutionary processes that eventually lead to disease emergence. Here, we have studied paramyxovirus circulation within populations of endemic and introduced wild small mammals of the southwestern Indian Ocean region and belonging to four taxonomic orders: Rodentia, Afrosoricida, Soricomorpha, and Chiroptera. We report elevated infection levels as well as widespread paramyxovirus dispersal and frequent host exchange of a newly emerging genus of the Paramyxoviridae, currently referred to as the unclassified morbillivirus-related viruses (UMRVs). In contrast to other genera of the Paramyxoviridae, where bats have been shown to be a key host species, we show that rodents (and, in particular, Rattus rattus) are significant spreaders of UMRVs. We predict that the ecological particularities of the southwestern Indian Ocean, where small mammal species often live in densely packed, multispecies communities, in combination with the increasing invasion of R. rattus and perturbations of endemic animal communities by active anthropological development, will have a major influence on the dynamics of UMRV infection. © 2014, American Society for Microbiology.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Wilkinson, David A.
France
Plateforme de Recherche Cyroi
France, Saint-denis
Université de la Réunion
Mélade, Julien
France
Plateforme de Recherche Cyroi
France, Saint-denis
Université de la Réunion
Dietrich, Muriel
France
Plateforme de Recherche Cyroi
France, Saint-denis
Université de la Réunion
Ramasindrazana, Beza
France
Plateforme de Recherche Cyroi
Madagascar, Antananarivo
Association Vahatra
Soarimalala, Voahangy
Madagascar, Antananarivo
Association Vahatra
Lagadec, Erwan
France
Plateforme de Recherche Cyroi
France, Marseille
Ird Institut de Recherche Pour le Developpement
Le Minter, Gildas
France
Plateforme de Recherche Cyroi
France, Marseille
Ird Institut de Recherche Pour le Developpement
Tortosa, Pablo
France
Plateforme de Recherche Cyroi
France, Saint-denis
Université de la Réunion
Héraud, Jean Michel
Madagascar, Antananarivo
Institut Pasteur de Madagascar
Lamballerie, Xavier De
France, Marseille
Émergence Des Pathologies Virales
Goodman, Steven Michael
Madagascar, Antananarivo
Association Vahatra
United States, Chicago
Field Museum of Natural History
Dellagi, Koussey
France
Plateforme de Recherche Cyroi
France, Marseille
Ird Institut de Recherche Pour le Developpement
Pascalis, Hervé
France
Plateforme de Recherche Cyroi
France, Marseille
Ird Institut de Recherche Pour le Developpement
Statistics
Citations: 44
Authors: 13
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1128/JVI.01211-14
ISSN:
0022538X
e-ISSN:
10985514