Characterization of a novel picornavirus isolate from a diseased European eel (Anguilla anguilla)
A novel picornavirus was isolated from specimens of a diseased European eel (Anguilla anguilla). This virus induced a cytopathic effect in eel embryonic kidney cells and high mortality in a controlled transmission study using elvers. Eel picornavirus has a genome of 7,496 nucleotides that encodes a...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2013
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.7892/boris.39220 http://boris.unibe.ch/39220/ |
| Summary: | A novel picornavirus was isolated from specimens of a diseased European eel (Anguilla anguilla). This virus induced a cytopathic effect in eel embryonic kidney cells and high mortality in a controlled transmission study using elvers. Eel picornavirus has a genome of 7,496 nucleotides that encodes a polyprotein of 2,259 amino acids. It has a typical picornavirus genome layout, but its low similarity to known viral proteins suggests a novel species in the family Picornaviridae. |
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