Diego E. Angelucci

May 9, 2023 | pnas.org | Andrea Rinaldo |Bethan Linscott |Diego E. Angelucci |Matthew Cooper

Skip to main content Spatially explicit effective reproduction numbers from incidence and mobility data Contributed by Andrea Rinaldo; received November 20, 2022; accepted March 28, 2023; reviewed by Stefano Merler and Alessandro Vespignani Significance The effective reproduction number quantifies the average number of secondary infections caused by an infected individual (within the population of their own resident community, or anywhere else) when the pool of susceptibles, the...

May 8, 2023 | pnas.org | van der Hoek |Bethan Linscott |Diego E. Angelucci |Matthew Cooper

Skip to main content SignificanceA single family of cressdnaviruses is known to infect vertebrates, the Circoviridae. Here, we identified a second that has historically infected saurians, naming them the Draupnirviridae. The initial clue was that some draupnirviruses donated their Rep gene to poxviruses exclusively infecting birds and their relatives.