Emergence of Pathogenicity in Lagoviruses: Evolution from Pre-existing Nonpathogenic Strains or through a Species Jump?

• Pedro José Esteves ,

  * E-mail: pjesteves@cibio.up.pt

  Affiliations InBIO—Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, CESPU, Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada em Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde, Gandra, Portugal

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• Joana Abrantes,

  Affiliation InBIO—Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal

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• Stéphane Bertagnoli,

  Affiliations UMR 1225, INRA, Toulouse, France, INP-ENVT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

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• Patrizia Cavadini,

  Affiliation Proteomic Unit, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna “Bruno Ubertini”, Brescia, Italy

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• Dolores Gavier-Widén,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Wildlife Diseases, National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Jean-Sébastien Guitton,

  Affiliation Department of Studies and Research, National Hunting and Wildlife Agency (ONCFS), Nantes, France

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• Antonio Lavazza,

  Affiliation Virology Unit, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna “Bruno Ubertini”, Brescia, Italy

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• Evelyne Lemaitre,

  Affiliations Avian and Rabbit Virology Immunology Parasitology Unit, Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Anses), Ploufragan, France, European University of Brittany, Rennes, France

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• Jérôme Letty,

  Affiliation Department of Studies and Research, National Hunting and Wildlife Agency (ONCFS), Nantes, France

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• Ana Margarida Lopes,

  Affiliations InBIO—Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Aleksija S. Neimanis,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Wildlife Diseases, National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Nathalie Ruvoën-Clouet,

  Affiliation Inserm U892; CNRS, UMR 6299University of Nantes, Nantes France

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• Jacques Le Pendu,

  Affiliation Inserm U892; CNRS, UMR 6299University of Nantes, Nantes France

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• Stéphane Marchandeau,

  Affiliation Department of Studies and Research, National Hunting and Wildlife Agency (ONCFS), Nantes, France

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• Ghislaine Le Gall-Reculé

  Affiliations Avian and Rabbit Virology Immunology Parasitology Unit, Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Anses), Ploufragan, France, European University of Brittany, Rennes, France

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