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Keywords: Viral Ecology, Evolution, Emerging Diseases

In this Episode, we discuss what can cause viruses to switch hosts also known as host shifting. We Discuss this with Dr. Ben Longdon from the University of Exeter who's paper investigates how well a small group of related viruses can infect a group of closely related species.

Paper Available: Between virus correlations in the outcome of infection across host species: Evidence of virus by host species interactions - Imrie - 2021 - Evolution Letters - Wiley Online Library