L. Brierley

Mammal virus diversity estimates are unstable due to accelerating discovery effort

The paper shows that estimates of viral diversity in mammals are unstable due to increasing discovery rates, making ecological inferences unreliable.

The Global Virome in One Network (VIRION): an atlas of vertebrate-virus associations

The paper creates VIRION, a comprehensive database of vertebrate-virus associations, and demonstrates its utility for studying microbiology, ecology, and evolution.

Preprints in motion: tracking changes between preprint posting and journal publication during a pandemic

The paper tracks changes between preprint and published versions of biomedical articles during the pandemic, finding limited structural changes and minor conclusion modifications.

Data proliferation, reconciliation, and synthesis in viral ecology

The paper synthesizes mammal-virus association data from multiple sources to create a reconciled database, showing improved insights into the mammal virome and advocating for synthetic datasets in viral ecology.

Preprinting the COVID-19 pandemic

This study analyzes the role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 science, finding increased engagement, faster review, and greater sharing of preprints related to the pandemic.

Evolutionary origins of epidemic potential among human RNA viruses

The paper investigates the evolutionary origins of epidemic potential in human RNA viruses, finding that most transmissible lineages evolved from non-human viruses.