Picobirnavirus prevalence and genetic diversity in free-living mammals of the Atlantic Forest.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38114776

Picobirnavirus, a double-stranded RNA virus, is prevalent in various free-living mammals in the Atlantic Forest, with strains showing high genetic diversity and the potential to infect different animal species, highlighting the virus’s role in cross-species transmission and its ecological and evolutionary history.