Chipley Bugle: Ancient virus may have given mammals the edge during dinosaur extinction era
Published in PLOS Pathogens: “Divergent bornaviruses from Australian carpet pythons with neurological disease date the origin of extant Bornaviridae prior to the end-Cretaceous extinction.” Mark Stenglein, Ph.D., a veterinary microbiologist at Colorado State University, was responsible for assembling the virus so that it could be analyzed in more detail.