Macrogenomic analysis showcases the diversity of tick RNA viruses in Mentougou, Beijing, China
Qiangqiang Shi, Qinqin Song, Xuan Liu, Guoyong Mei, Chen Gao, Haijun Du, Zhiqiang Xia, Mi Liu, Juan Song, Lifeng Zhang, Rundong Zhu, Ze Cheng, Jin Cao, Duo Rao, Yuqin Zhang, Zhiyue Wang, Jun Han · 2026
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Qiangqiang Shi and a large team survey in 2026 the RNA viruses carried by ticks in Mentougou, a mountainous district of Beijing. Ticks rank second only to mosquitoes as carriers of human pathogens, and China hosts several dangerous tick viruses, yet the capital region's tick virome was barely mapped. The team gathered ticks locally and ran metagenomic sequencing, assembling the reads and placing the viruses on evolutionary trees.
They found nineteen distinct viral species spread across twelve families. Six were entirely new viruses from five families, a sign of how much diversity hides in a single district. Screening against known threats also turned up a tick jingmen-like virus, a relative of a recognized pathogen group. The authors offer the catalog as baseline data for surveillance and for planning prevention of tick-borne disease across the Beijing metropolitan area.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Qiangqiang Shi, Qinqin Song, Xuan Liu, Guoyong Mei, Chen Gao, Haijun Du, Zhiqiang Xia, Mi Liu, Juan Song, Lifeng Zhang, Rundong Zhu, Ze Cheng, Jin Cao, Duo Rao, Yuqin Zhang, Zhiyue Wang, Jun Han |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38475 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |