Domestication of wild animals may provide a springboard for rapid variation of coronavirus

Abstract: Coronaviruses have spread widely among humans and other animals, but not all coronaviruses carried by specific animals can directly infect other kinds of animals. Viruses from most animal hosts need an intermediate host before they can spread widely among humans. Under natural conditions, coronaviruses do not rapidly change from infecting wild animals as intermediate hosts and to spreading widely among humans. The intermediate host might be the animals captured or bred for the purpose of cross-breeding with domesticated species for improvement of the breed. These animals differ from wild animals at the environmental and genetic levels. It is an important direction to study the semi-wild animals domesticated by humans in search for intermediate hosts of viruses widely spread among humans.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Domestication of wild animals may provide a springboard for rapid variation of coronavirus ; volume:16 ; number:1 ; year:2021 ; pages:252-254 ; extent:3
Open life sciences ; 16, Heft 1 (2021), 252-254 (gesamt 3)

Creator
Gao, Lei

DOI
10.1515/biol-2021-0027
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022091914405967970189
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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