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Caladenia virus A, an unusual new member of the family Potyviridae from terrestrial orchids in Western Australia.
Archives of virology - 1 Dec 2012
Wylie Stephen J, Tan Aaron J Y, Li Hua, Dixon Kingsley W, Jones Michael G K
Abstract excerpt
An isolate of a new virus, Caladenia virus A (CalVA), was identified infecting Australian terrestrial orchids. The complete genome of 9,847 nucleotides encodes 11 gene products typical of most members of the family Potyviridae. Sequence comparisons of the polyprotein revealed that CalVA shared highest sequence identity (37.5-39.6 %) with members of the genus Poacevirus. Although a vector for CalVA was not...
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