Clues to Male Preference of 2019-nCoV
From the study of post #280 we find that EAV causes death and abortion, though does not cause teratogenesis. Thus, there are differences in sequences between EAV and SARS which should be investigated. Further, an unusually high number of tuberculosis cases in Kentucky was noted when studying past coroner records from certain time windows. Balasuriya specifically mentions Kentucky for EAV, so Ft. Campbell would likely be a poor choice for 2019-nCoV quarantine:
'....Most EAV infections are subclinical but occasional outbreaks of disease occur that are characterised by any combination of influenza-like illness in adult horses, abortion i pregnant mares, and interstitial pneumonia in very young foals. Up to 60% of stallions infected with EAV become persistently infected carriers and shed virus continuously in semen. Persistence of EAV in the male reproductive tract is testosterone-dependent, and persistently infected stallions function as a natural reservoir that can disseminate virus to susceptible mare at breeding (Timoney and McCollum, 1993).
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To characterize the heterogeneity of EAV during persistent infection, detailed sequence analysis of the structural protein genes (ORFs [open-reading frames] 2-7) was performed with viral RNA purified directly from semen collected sequentially over a 10-year period from two Thoroughbred carrier stallions that were infected during an EAV outbreak in Kentucky in 1984 (Hedges et al [1999], J. Virol. 73: 3672-3681)....the RNA in the semen of two stallions was distinct from year to year. The master sequence of the virus population shed in the semen of individual stallions varied by approximately 1% per year.'
(Balasuriya EBR, et al, Molecular Epidemiology and Evolution of Equine Arteritis Virus, in, The Nidoviruses (Coronaviruses and Arteriviruses))
In the same volume, and linking the potyvirus of papaya leaf in post #261:
'Arterivirus EAV is a 'Mini' Coronavirus: The Birth of the Nidovirales....Particularly, the frameshifted pp1b polyprotein contained distant homologs of four conserved domains that had previously been identified in both corona- and toroviruses. Likewise, the pp1a polyprotein contained a characteristic domain set consisting of Plpro (called papain-like cysteine protease, PCP) asw well as 3CLpro embedded between two HDs (hydrophobic domains, Fig 1)....these families were united in a Coronavirus-like supergroup, Gorbalenya and Koonin, 1993; Snijder et al, 1993), which was subsequently recognized as the order Nidovirales (Cavanaugh, 1997)....an amplification of papain-like domains has contributed to the enlargement of the nidovirus genome....Each of these proteases was shown to cleave two sites that included at least one small amino acid. In MHV, both sites were mapped upstream of the cognate PL1pro (papain-like 1), and for IBV, one site was found to be upstream and another downstream of the PLpro.'
(Gorbalenya A, Big Nidovirus Genome: When Count and Order of Domains Matter, in The Nidoviruses, op cit)
Thus, aspects of EAV link MHV and IBV, previously mentioned in the thread.