On the virome’s hidden diversity: lessons from RHDV

Abstract

ABSTRACTEmerging infectious diseases are a major challenge to human and animal health. While predicting the emergence of pathogens is complex, the advent of high-throughput sequencing technologies has allowed the rapid identification of unknown microbiology diversity within organisms. Here, we discuss an example of a metatranscriptomics output to decipher viral evolution.

Keywords

• viral evolution
• RNA viruses
• metatranscriptomics
• disease emergence