BIODIVERSITY, WHAT KIND OF RESEARCH TO FORSEE RISKS?

ABSTRACT

Biodiversity combines species, their genetic variability, their ecosystems and all the relationships between them. Endosymbiosis is one of the more important, the probable way between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Evolution of life relies on combining previous elements into new ones. The discovery of microbiome changes the way microorganisms are considered within the whole biodiversity and for their links with sanitary challenges. Cooperation seems as important as competition. Is it then pertinent to see the development of genomics as the only possibility to discover new viruses in reservoir species before they start new pandemics and to prevent them? Is it the good way to ask the question of new sanitary risks emergence? What about considering the ecology of epidemiological cycles? Or working breeding practices with more connection to local biodiversity? How human sciences could be taken into account? A few examples will illustrate some of these points. Copyright © 2022 Academie Veterinaire de France. All rights reserved.