Antoni Exbrayat

This paper investigates how Bluetongue virus facilitates host alternation by analyzing adaptive mutations and genome formula variation (GFV) in natural and experimental settings.

The paper uses metagenomics to survey mosquito vectors in Burkina Faso, detecting Sindbis virus for the first time in the region and identifying a new potential vector species.

The paper examines how mosquito species influence virome diversity and abundance, finding that viromes differ mainly by species rather than habitat, with shared viral taxa varying in abundance.

This study shows that endogenous viral elements can mimic exogenous viruses in transcriptomic data, leading to false positives and biased virus discovery.