Opinion paper: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 and domestic animals: what relation?

[...]in France, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES) established an Emergency Collective Expert Appraisal Group (Groupe d’Expertise Collective d’Urgence, GECU ‘Covid-19’). According to the GECU, crossing the species barrier is not a common phenomenon as it requires genetic innovations (e.g. mutations and deletions) potentially involving genetic exchange for adaptation to a new host species (e.g. recombinations). According to the GECU, additional studies need to be conducted to elucidate the interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and ACE2 homologues in other animal species. Furthermore, computational model of SARS-CoV-2 S-protein and ACE2 homologue in ferrets suggested that this species can theoretically be infected with SARS-CoV-2 (Wan et al., 2020). [...]experimental