Abstract
Recently, gemycircularviruses have been found in humans and various species of animals. Here, a novel gemycircularvirus named Ch-zjrat-01 from blood samples of experimental rats was characterized. The novel gemycircularvirus encodes two major proteins, including a capsid protein (Cap) and a replication-associated protein (Rep). Phylogenetic analysis based on the amino acid sequence of Rep indicated that Ch-zjrat-01 clusters with two gemycircularviruses discovered from bird (KF371635) and mosquito (HQ335086), sharing 48.7 and 49.4 % sequence identities with them, respectively.
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This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 31302107, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province No. BK2012289, and China Postdoctoral Special Science Foundation No. 2015T80503.
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Li, W., Gu, Y., Shen, Q. et al. A novel gemycircularvirus from experimental rats. Virus Genes 51, 302–305 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11262-015-1238-1
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