Sakiho Imai

This study identifies three new hepaciviruses in birds, revealing phylogenetic incongruence and suggesting past cross-species transmission among avian hepaciviruses.

This study identifies a novel parahenipavirus, BbV, from northern short-tailed shrews using RNA-seq data and demonstrates its kidney tropism.

This study identifies and characterizes two nearly complete genomes of pigeon gammacoronaviruses, supporting their classification as a new species within the Igacovirus subgenus.

The paper demonstrates that ambisense transcription allows compact circular RNA viruses to expand coding capacity by expressing additional genes, using kolmioviruses as a case study.