1. Highly divergent cyclo-like virus in a great roundleaf bat ( Hipposideros armiger) in Vietnam.
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Kemenesi, Gábor, Kurucz, Kornélia, Zana, Brigitta, Tu, Vuong, Görföl, Tamás, Estók, Péter, Földes, Fanni, Sztancsik, Katalin, Urbán, Péter, Fehér, Enikő, and Jakab, Ferenc
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NUCLEOTIDE sequence , *VIRUS phylogeny , *VIRAL genetics , *DNA viruses - Abstract
Members of the viral family Circoviridae are increasingly recognized worldwide. Bats seem to be natural reservoirs or dietary-related dispensers of these viruses. Here, we report a distantly related member of the genus Cyclovirus detected in the faeces of a great roundleaf bat ( Hipposideros armiger). Interestingly, the novel virus lacks a Circoviridae-specific stem-loop structure, although a Geminiviridae-like nonamer sequence was detected in the large intergenic region. Based on these differences and its phylogenetic position, we propose that our new virus represents a distant and highly divergent member of the genus Cyclovirus. However it is lacking several characteristics of members of the genus, which raises a challenge in its taxonomic classification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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