Continuous presence of genetically diverse rustrela virus lineages in yellow-necked field mouse reservoir populations in northeastern Germany.

"data availability all novel rusv sequences were uploaded to genbank and are available under the accessions op689517-op689556 (prjna790443). data availability all novel rusv sequences were uploaded to genbank and are available under the accessions op689517"

"Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study, in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data, in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results."

"Funding The investigations were supported by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture through the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, project ZooSeq, grant number 2819114019 granted to M.B., and by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through the Research Platform for Zoonoses, project RubiZoo, grant number 01KI2111 granted to D.R. Project “Demetra” (Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2018 – 2022, CUP_C46C18000530001) was funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research to P.F."