Title |
Highly divergent cyclo-like virus in a great roundleaf bat (Hipposideros armiger) in Vietnam
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Published in |
Archives of Virology, April 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/s00705-017-3377-2 |
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Authors |
Gábor Kemenesi, Kornélia Kurucz, Brigitta Zana, Vuong Tan Tu, Tamás Görföl, Péter Estók, Fanni Földes, Katalin Sztancsik, Péter Urbán, Enikő Fehér, Ferenc Jakab |
Abstract |
Members of the viral family Circoviridae are increasingly recognized worldwide. Bats seem to be natural reservoirs or dietary-related dispensers of these viruses. Here, we report a distantly related member of the genus Cyclovirus detected in the faeces of a great roundleaf bat (Hipposideros armiger). Interestingly, the novel virus lacks a Circoviridae-specific stem-loop structure, although a Geminiviridae-like nonamer sequence was detected in the large intergenic region. Based on these differences and its phylogenetic position, we propose that our new virus represents a distant and highly divergent member of the genus Cyclovirus. However it is lacking several characteristics of members of the genus, which raises a challenge in its taxonomic classification. |
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