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Hello GRC: An article below by The Wildlife Society that provides links to a recent paper in Ecological Modelling about the chimeric FV3-like ranavirus (recombinant with CMTV) that Tom phylogenetically characterized in 2017 (Claytor et al. 2017). This story has been developing for about two decades — and links back to Greg’s original paper on RCV-Z<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17240747> (now we realize it was CMTV) in 2005 and Deb’s paper in 2007<https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/2/06-1073_article> from the same ranaculture facility. It took a decade after Deb’s paper to figure out what Deb and Greg isolated, and how virulent (and consequential) viral recombination can be! This is more evidence (in my opinion) to require clean trade of amphibians, especially for notifiable pathogens. https://wildlife.org/new-mutant-ranavirus-could-decimate-frogs/?fbclid=IwAR2mUVDvZHCbrV5gFBoRC2W2IM7hZs6u0aZKUdteBXDUcSI5LVhRFcJrpoE Aside from these findings — the GRC made these collaborations happen! Because it wasn’t until we met Tom Waltzek at the 2nd International Symposium on Ranaviruses in Knoxville, that we decided to look deeper into the genetic composition of these (and other) isolates. There are so many of these examples of how folks met each other through the GRC that led to future collaborations and new findings that advanced our understanding of ranaviruses — and, pathogens in general!! All the Best, Matt ===================================================== Matthew J. Gray, Ph.D., Professor Associate Director, UTIA Center for Wildlife Health Chair, Technical Advisory Committee of the North American Bsal Task Force<http://www.salamanderfungus.org/> Past Chair, PARC National Disease Task Team<http://parcplace.org/resources/parc-disease-task-team/> Founding and Past Director, Global Ranavirus Consortium<https://www.ranavirus.org/> University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture (UTIA) 274 Ellington Plant Sciences Building Knoxville, TN 37996-4563 USA 865-974-2740 Office / 865-974-4714 Fax [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | ag.tennessee.edu/cwh/<https://ag.tennessee.edu/cwh/Pages/default.aspx> [cid:058687C5-5190-4721-ABC9-773CC5DBE1B0] UTIA Bsal Project: https://ag.tennessee.edu/fwf/bsalproject/