Discovery of a highly divergent coronavirus in the Asian house shrew from China illuminates the origin of the alphacoronaviruses

Journal of Virology

Volumn 91, Issue 17, 2017, Pages

  Wang, Wen ^a   Lin, Xian Dan ^b   Liao, Yong ^c   Guan, Xiao Qing ^a   Guo, Wen Ping ^a   Xing, Jian Guang ^d   Holmes, Edward C ^e   Zhang, Yong Zhen ^a  

^a Department of Zoonoses   (China)

^b Wenzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c Ganzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d Wencheng District Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^e University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alphacoronavirus; Asian house shrew; Coronavirus; Evolution; Phylogeny; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ALPHACORONAVIRUS; ARTICLE; CHINA; CORONAVIRIDAE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUNCUS MURINUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 85027345953     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00764-17     Document Type: Article

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