Special Issue "RNA Virus Discovery"
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "General Virology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: RNA virus discovery, emergence, transmission, and evolution
Interests: virus evolution; virus discovery; virus ecology; cross species transmission
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
RNA viruses make up a large part of One-Health-relevant pathogens. RNA viruses have caused multiple epidemics/pandemics, epizootics, and epiphytotics, with the cataclysmic COVID-19 pandemic being an ongoing example. The abundance of RNA viruses can be attributed to high evolutionary adaptability, resulting in broad host ranges. Advances in virus detection and discovery methodologies have improved our understanding of the RNA virosphere and also provide contextual information for novel virus emergence and outbreak response. In addition to the evident implications of RNA virus discovery in public health, agriculture, and wildlife conservation, it can improve basic knowledge of RNA virus ecology and evolution. Together with massive, mostly high-throughput, sequencing-related, methodological improvements for RNA virus discovery, there are multiple longstanding and emergent challenges in the areas of virus genomic sequencing, viral genome discovery and annotation, isolation and characterization, host range determination, cataloguing and taxonomy, and ethical and practical implications of material and data use. With expanding global efforts in RNA virus discovery, we are launching a Special Issue aiming to provide a spotlight on current advances in the field.
Dr. Etienne Simon-Loriere
Dr. Jemma L Geoghegan
Dr. Artem Baidaliuk
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- virus discovery
- virus host range
- next-generation sequencing
- RNA virus taxonomy
- RNA virus database
- RNA virus bioinformatics
- virus outbreak
- virus ecology
- RNA virus evolution
- RNA virus genetics
- RNA virus structural biology
- virus origin
- metagenomics
- meta-transcriptomics
- virome