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Phylogeny of beak and feather disease virus in cockatoos demonstrates host generalism and multiple-variant infections within Psittaciformes.
Virology - 1 Jul 2014
Sarker Subir, Ghorashi Seyed A, Forwood Jade K, Bent Stephen J, Peters Andrew, Raidal Shane R
Abstract excerpt
Phylogenetic analyses of the highly genetically diverse but antigenically conserved, single-stranded circular, DNA genome of the avian circovirus, beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) from cockatoo species throughout Australia demonstrated a high mutation rate for BFDV (orders of magnitude fall in the range of 10(-4) substitutions/site/year) along with strong support for recombination indicating active...
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