Animal and Wildlife Viruses

Dear Colleagues,

The rate of discovery of viruses both in domesticated animals and wildlife has increased rapidly in recent years and is anticipated to continue to climb over the coming years with the advent of next-generation sequencing technologies and the investigation of biological samples from multiple hosts across broad geographic regions. A better understanding of the viral reservoirs of wildlife and domesticated animals and the generation of more fully characterized animal viral genomes across diverse host species will improve our understanding of viral evolution as well as cross species transmissions. Enhanced knowledge of both the breadth of viruses that animals and wildlife species carry as well as a better understanding of their pathogenesis will provide new opportunities for animal vaccine development, particularly for domesticated and endangered wild species. In this issue we would like to focus on sources of sampling for novel animal virus discovery, animal viral reservoirs, the characterisation of novel viruses from animals and wildlife, disease association and causation studies for new animal viruses and viruses of zoonotic importance.

Dr. Karla Helbig
Dr. Subir Sarker
Guest Editors

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