
@article {154152,
	title = {Identification of Distinct Rodent-Associated Adenovirus Lineages from Mixed-Use Landscape.},
	journal = {Ecohealth},
	year = {2025},
	month = {2025 Feb 04},
	abstract = {<p>Land-use change and increased human-livestock-wildlife interactions have generated numerous possibilities for viral spillover, demanding enhanced surveillance in biodiverse regions. We investigated adenovirus diversity in small mammals, an understudied host taxon, from a forest-plantation mosaic in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot. We observed high prevalence (up to 39.39\%) and identified five lineages of adenoviruses with unique mutations in the dominant small mammal species,\&nbsp;Rattus satarae. These lineages significantly differed from other known murine adenoviruses (p-distance \&gt; 25\%), indicating the likelihood of novel adenoviruses in this endemic small mammal and suggesting potential for unexplored DNA virus diversity in the region.</p>
},
	keywords = {DNA viruses; India; small mammals; surveillance.},
	issn = {1612-9210},
	doi = {10.1007/s10393-025-01700-6},
	url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39903359/},
	author = {Ansil, B R and Sanyal, Avirup and Sreenivas, Darshan and Garg, Kritika M and Ramakrishnan, Uma and Chattopadhyay, Balaji}
}
