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Pigeon circoviruses display patterns of recombination, genomic secondary structure and selection similar to those of beak and feather disease viruses.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jun 2014
Stenzel Tomasz, Piasecki Tomasz, Chrząstek Klaudia, Julian Laurel, Muhire Brejnev M, Golden Michael, Martin Darren P, Varsani Arvind
Abstract excerpt
Pigeon circovirus (PiCV) has a ~2 kb genome circular ssDNA genome. All but one of the known PiCV isolates have been found infecting pigeons in various parts of the world. In this study, we screened 324 swab and tissue samples from Polish pigeons and recovered 30 complete genomes, 16 of which came from birds displaying no obvious pathology. Together with 17 other publicly available PiCV complete genomes sampled...
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