Node role of wild boars in virus circulation among wildlife and domestic animals.

ABSTRACT: Wild boars are considered pest animals in most of their distribution ranges, but their role as virus reservoirs has long been overlooked, with the circulation dynamics of their viruses rarely investigated. Here we prepared a data set, that is, BrCN-Virome, of 9281 viral metagenomes by pan-viromic analyses of 2535 organ and 274 blood samples from 466 healthy and 50 dead wild boars across 127 locations in 26 provincial regions of China. Compared to domestic pigs, BrCN-Virome shows different viromic composition, with a great expansion in the DNA virus diversity. Some wild boar viruses are traced to humans, domestic animals, wildlife, and arthropods, with several evidently or potentially related to epizootics or zoonoses. Pig pathogens spread widely in wild boars and are responsible for a subs

SUBMITTER: Tu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12508043 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature