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Beak and feather disease virus genotypes in Australian parrots reveal flexible host-switching.
Australian veterinary journal - 1 Dec 2015
Sarker S, Forwood J K, Ghorashi S A, Peters A, Raidal S R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To discover beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) genotypes in Australian parrots that might threaten vulnerable and endangered psittacine bird species. METHODS: Phylogenetic analyses of new DNA sequence data from Australian birds including the Rep gene (n = 55) and nine whole genomes, were compared with all available published BFDV genomes to assess host- and geographically-based divergence as well as...
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