Discovery of a unique novel clade of mosquito-associated bunyaviruses

Bunyaviruses are the largest known family of RNA viruses, infecting vertebrates, insects, and plants. Here we isolated three novel bunyaviruses from mosquitoes sampled in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Uganda. The viruses define a highly diversified monophyletic sister clade to all members of the ge...

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Published in:	Journal of virology Vol. 87; no. 23; p. 12850
Main Authors:	Marklewitz, Marco, Zirkel, Florian, Rwego, Innocent B, Heidemann, Hanna, Trippner, Pascal, Kurth, Andreas, Kallies, René, Briese, Thomas, Lipkin, W Ian, Drosten, Christian, Gillespie, Thomas R, Junglen, Sandra
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.12.2013
Subjects:	Amino Acid Sequence Animals Base Sequence Bunyaviridae - classification Bunyaviridae - genetics Bunyaviridae - growth & development Bunyaviridae - isolation & purification Bunyaviridae Infections - veterinary Bunyaviridae Infections - virology Cell Line Culicidae - virology Genome, Viral Humans Insect Vectors - virology Mice Molecular Sequence Data Phylogeny Sequence Alignment Viral Proteins - chemistry Viral Proteins - genetics
ISSN:	1098-5514, 1098-5514
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