Yuan-Fei Pan, Hailong Zhao, Qin-Yu Gou, Pei-Bo Shi, Jun-Hua Tian, Yun Feng, Kun Li, Wei-Hong Yang, De Wu, Guangpeng Tang, Bing Zhang, Zirui Ren, Shiqin Peng, Geng-Yan Luo, Shi-Jia Le, Gen-Yang Xin, Jing Wang, Xin Hou, Min-Wu Peng, Jian-Bin Kong, Xin-Xin Chen, Chun-Hui Yang, Shi-Qiang Mei, Yu-Qi Liao, Jing-Xia Cheng, Juan Wang, Chaolemen, Yu-Hui Wu, Jian-Bo Wang, Tongqing An, Xinyi Huang, John-Sebastian Eden, Jun Li, Deyin Guo, Guodong Liang, Xin Jin, Edward C Holmes, Bo Li, Daxi Wang, Junhua Li, Wei-Chen Wu, Mang Shi
Mosquito transmitted viruses are responsible for an increasing burden of human disease. Despite this, little is known about the diversity and ecology of viruses within individual mosquito hosts. Here, using a meta-transcriptomic approach, we determined the viromes of 2,438 individual mosquitoes (81 species), spanning ~4,000 km along latitudes and longitudes in China. From these data we identified 393 viral species associated with mosquitoes, including 7 (putative) species of arthropod-borne viruses (that is, arboviruses)...
March 22, 2024: Nature Ecology & Evolution