Viral metagenomics in wild ducks reveals the presence of seadornaviruses in Siberia

Seadornavirus is a genus of mosquito-borne viruses that includes Banna virus, which was first discovered in human patients with encephalitis and fever, as well as Kadipiro virus and Liao ning virus. In this study, we used metagenomics to investigate the diversity of viruses in wild ducks and detected both Banna virus and Kadipiro virus in wild birds in Siberia. These data suggest that seadornaviruses, which were previously only found in South East Asia, are also circulating in Northern Eurasia. © 2025. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature.

Authors
Dubovitskiy N. , Derko A. , Loginova A. , Khozyainova A. , Denisov E. , Apanasevich M. , Kokhanenko A. , Druzyaka A. , Shestopalov A. , Sharshov K.
Publisher
Springer Verlag Wien
Issue number
2
Language
English
State
Published
Volume
170
Year
2025
Organizations
  • 1 Research Institute of Virology, Federal Research Center of Fundamental and Translational Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
  • 2 Cancer Research Institute, Tomsk National Research Medical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russian Federation
  • 3 Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, RUDN University, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 4 Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation
  • 5 Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
Keywords
Animals; Animals, Wild; Bird Diseases; Ducks; Genome, Viral; Metagenomics; Phylogeny; Siberia; animal; bird disease; duck; genetics; metagenomics; phylogeny; Russian Federation; virology; virus genome; wild animal
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