Novel virus discovery and genome reconstruction from field rna samples reveals highly divergent viruses in dipteran hosts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Cook, Shelley ^a   Chung, Betty Y W ^b   Bass, David ^a   Moureau, Gregory ^c   Tang, Shuoya ^b   McAlister, Erica ^a   Culverwell, C Lorna ^a   Glücksman, Edvard ^d   Wang, Hui ^e   Brown, T David K ^b   Gould, Ernest A ^c,e   Harbach, Ralph E ^a   De Lamballerie, Xavier ^c   Firth, Andrew E ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Aix Marseille University IRD 190 Inserm 1207   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^e CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; ENTOMOBIRNAVIRUS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENOME, VIRAL; INSECT VIRUSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; READING FRAMES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 84894093980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080720     Document Type: Article

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