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...
Published in: | Journal of Virology |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2013
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Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807381 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23885066 https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01094-13 |
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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