Kosuke Takada

The paper reports a new bat betacoronavirus from Brazil with a functional furin cleavage site in its spike protein, highlighting its phylogenetic distinctiveness and potential zoonotic risk.

This study identifies new RNA viruses in invasive camelids in Australia, revealing convergent evolution of upstream ORFs across divergent picornaviruses.

This study examines genome size variation in animal RNA viruses and finds that phylogenetic constraints, not host type or genome segmentation, primarily influence genome size across viral orders.