Cetacean morbillivirus, a journey from land to sea and vice versa
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Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Teramo, Abruzzo Region, Italy
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Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Legnaro, Padova, Veneto Region, Italy
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Conservation Biology, Microbiology, Veterinary Medicine, Virology, Infectious Diseases
- Keywords
- Cetacean Morbillivirus, Canine Distemper Virus, Viral phylogeny, Aquatic Mammals., Host-pathogen interactions, Cetaceans, Viral evolution, Rinderpest Virus
- Copyright
- © 2019 Di Guardo et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. Cetacean morbillivirus, a journey from land to sea and vice versa. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27487v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27487v1
Abstract
Cetacean Morbillivirus, the most relevant pathogen impacting the health and conservation of cetaceans worldwide, has shown in recent years an increased tendency to cross “interspecies barriers”, thereby giving rise to disease and mortality outbreaks in free-ranging dolphins and whales. The present “Opinion Article” deals with the evolutionary “trajectories” of this viral pathogen, likely originating from Rinderpest Virus, along with its "journey" from land to sea (and vice versa), mimicking that of cetaceans' terrestrial ancestors.
Author Comment
This "preprint" has been simultaneously submitted, for consideration of publication, to "Journal of General Virology".