B. R. Ansil

The study detects Rickettsia and Borrelia in rodents from southern India, highlighting their tissue-specific distribution and potential public health risks.

The paper examines how anthropogenic habitats affect gut microbiome composition in Southern Indian bats, finding diet-specific taxonomic and functional diversity with signs of functional homogenization due to pollution.

The paper identifies novel and previously known alphacoronaviruses in three bat species in Belize and finds phylogenetic similarity between bat CoVs and human 229E and NL63 coronaviruses.

The paper identifies five novel adenovirus lineages in small mammals from the Western Ghats, highlighting unexplored viral diversity and zoonotic potential.