Identification of a novel nidovirus as a potential cause of large scale mortalities in the endangered Bellinger River snapping turtle (Myuchelys georgesi)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2018, Pages

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Finlaison, Deborah S ^a   Frost, Melinda J ^a   Gestier, Sarah ^a   Gu, Xingnian ^a   Hall, Jane ^b   Jenkins, Cheryl ^a   Parrish, Kate ^a   Read, Andrew J ^a   Srivastava, Mukesh ^a   Rose, Karrie ^b   Kirkland, Peter D ^a  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b TARONGA CONSERVATION SOCIETY AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOPSY; BELLINGER RIVER VIRUS; DYING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EYELID EDEMA; FRESHWATER SPECIES; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MORTALITY RATE; MYUCHELYS GEORGESI; NECROSIS; NEW SOUTH WALES; NEW SPECIES; NIDOVIRALES; NIDOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORBIT INFLAMMATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER; SKIN DISEASE; SNAPPING TURTLE; SPLEEN DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE; THIGH; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIZARD; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; TURTLE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; LIZARDS; NIDOVIRALES; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; RNA, VIRAL; TURTLES;

EID: 85055432228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205209     Document Type: Article

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