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Identification of a novel Orthohepadnavirus in pomona roundleaf bats in China.
Archives of virology - 1 Jan 2015
He Biao, Zhang Fuqiang, Xia Lele, Hu Tingsong, Chen Gang, Qiu Wei, Fan Quanshui, Feng Ye, Guo Huancheng, Tu Changchun
Abstract excerpt
Bats in Myanmar, Gabon, and Panama have been found to harbor diverse hepadnaviruses. Here, we report a novel hepadnavirus in 4 of 20 pomona roundleaf bats from Yunnan province, China. This virus contains 3,278 nucleotides (nt) in the full circularized genome, with four predicted open frames (ORFs) reading in the same direction. Full genomic sequence comparisons and evolutionary analysis indicate that this virus...
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