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Characterization of viromes within mosquito species in China

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This work was supported by the National S&T Major Project “China Mega-Project for Infectious Disease” (2018ZX10711001 and 2018ZX10101001), the Non-profit Central Institute Fund of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2018RC310018, 2017NL31004 and 2018PT31012), the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2016-I2M-1-014, 2017-I2M-B&R-12), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81772228, 81501773 and 81290342), and the Development Grant of State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (2015SKLID505).

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Table S1 Mosquito sampling table

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The number of virus-associated reads and mosquitoes

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Table S4 Presence and abundance of viruses from different mosquito species and location (Percentage of total Normalized)

Table S5 Mosquito Arbovirus distribution in our study

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Du, J., Li, F., Han, Y. et al. Characterization of viromes within mosquito species in China. Sci. China Life Sci. 63, 1089–1092 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-019-1583-9

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