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Marmota himalayana in the Qinghai–Tibetan plateau as a special host for bi-segmented and unsegmented picobirnaviruses
5 Mar 2018
Abstract excerpt
Wildlife has been considered the main source of novel viruses causing emerging infectious diseases. Marmota himalayana is endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Here, based on a high-throughput method using Illumina RNA sequencing, we studied the RNA virome of M. himalayana and discovered multiple novel viruses, especially picobirnaviruses (PBVs), which have a bi-segmented genome and belong to the family...
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