1. Novel dicistrovirus from bat guano.
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Reuter, Gábor, Pankovics, Péter, Gyöngyi, Zoltán, Delwart, Eric, and Boros, Ákos
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PICORNAVIRUSES , *GUANO , *VIRAL genomes , *ENTOMOPHAGOUS arthropods , *PIPISTRELLUS pipistrellus - Abstract
A novel dicistrovirus (strain NB-1/2011/HUN, KJ802403) genome was detected from guano collected from an insectivorous bat (species Pipistrellus pipistrellus) in Hungary, using viral metagenomics. The complete genome of NB-1 is 9136 nt in length, excluding the poly(A) tail. NB-1 has a genome organization typical of a dicistrovirus with multiple 3B and a cripavirus-like intergenic region (IGR)-IRES. NB-1 shares only 41 % average amino acid sequence identity with capsid proteins of Himetobi P virus, indicating a potential novel species in the genus Cripavirus, family Dicistroviridae. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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