Journal
ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY
Volume 162, Issue 8, Pages 2403-2407Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-017-3377-2
Keywords
Hipposideridae; Guano; ssDNA; CRESS DNA virus; Nucleotide composition analysis
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- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) [K112440]
- TAMOP [4.2.4.A/2-11-1-2012-0001]
- Szentagothai Talent Program - Szentagothai Research Centre, University of Pecs
- Ministry of Human Capacities [UNKP-16-3-III, UNKP-16-4-III]
- European Union
- European Social Fund: Comprehensive Development for Implementing Smart Specialization Strategies at the University of Pecs [EFOP-3.6.1.-16-2016-00004]
- Rufford Foundation
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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.
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