A novel group of avian astroviruses in wild aquatic birds

Journal of Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 13772-13778

  Chu, Daniel K W ^a   Leung, Connie Y H ^a   Perera, Harsha K K ^a   Ng, Erica M ^a   Gilbert, Martin ^b   Joyner, Priscilla H ^b   Grioni, Alessandro ^c   Ades, Gary ^c   Guan, Yi ^a   Peiris, Joseph S M ^a,d   Poon, Leo L M ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Cambodia)

^c Fauna Conservation Department   (China)

^d HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; ASTROVIRUS INFECTION; BIRD DISEASE; CAPSID GENE; CHICKEN; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RDRP GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURKEY (BIRD); VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ASTROVIRIDAE; BIRDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASTROVIRIDAE; AVASTROVIRUS; AVES;

EID: 84870865953     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02105-12     Document Type: Article

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