The wildlife breeding industry is under mounting pressure as related trading has been comprehensively suspended in China amid the coronavirus outbreak. Farmers are facing fateful decisions under ...

Highligh conserved in mammalian animals, the ACE2 gene which makes them potential COVID-19 hosts, but also means that animal models can be researched.

For instance, paguma lavarta was believed to be the intermediate host of SARS in 2003, but only some paguma lavartas in that year carried the virus and the animal is not the only intermediate host.