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Chapparvoviruses occur in at least three vertebrate classes and have a broad biogeographic distribution

  • William Marciel de Souza
  • , Marilia Farignoli Romeiro
  • , Marcílio Jorge Fumagalli
  • , Sejal Modha
  • , Jansen de Araujo
  • , Luzia Helena Queiroz
  • , Edison Luiz Durigon
  • , Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo
  • , Pablo Ramiro Murcia
  • , Robert James Gifford

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Abstract

Chapparvoviruses are a highly divergent group of parvoviruses (family Parvoviridae) that have recently been identified via metagenomic sampling of animal faeces. Here, we report the sequences of six novel chapparvoviruses identified through both metagenomic sampling of bat tissues and in silico screening of published vertebrate genome assemblies. The novel chapparvoviruses share several distinctive genomic features and group together as a robustly supported monophyletic clade in phylogenetic trees. Our data indicate that chapparvoviruses have a broad host range in vertebrates and a global distribution.

Original languageEnglish
Article number000671
Pages (from-to)225-229
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of General Virology
Volume98
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2017

Bibliographical note

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Funding

This work was supported by the Medical Research Council (grant no. MC_UU_12014/10) and by the Funda\u00E7ao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil (grant no. 13/14929-1 and scholarships no. 12/24150-9, 15/05778-5, 14/20851-8, 16/01414-1 and 06/ 00572-0). We thank Luiz Gustavo Betim G\u00F3es (Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of S\u00E3o Paulo) and Cristiano de Carvalho (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, S\u00E3o Paulo State University) for help with capture of bats. We also thank Colin R. Parrish (Cornell University) and Andrew Davison (MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Resarch) for their useful comments, which helped to improve this manuscript

FundersFunder number
Cristiano de Carvalho
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University
UK Industrial Decarbonization Research and Innovation Centre
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, São Paulo State University
Medical Research Council-São Paulo Research FoundationG0801822, MC_UU_12014/10, MC_UU_12014/12
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo16/01414-1, 06/ 00572-0, 13/14929-1, 12/24150-9, 15/05778-5, 14/20851-8

    Keywords

    • Endogenous virus
    • Evolution
    • Metagenomics
    • Parvovirus
    • Virus discovery

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Virology

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