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. 2014 Apr;20(4):697-700.
doi: 10.3201/eid2004.131441.

New alphacoronavirus in Mystacina tuberculata bats, New Zealand

Richard J Hall, Jing Wang, Matthew Peacey, Nicole E Moore, Kate McInnes, Daniel M Tompkins

New alphacoronavirus in Mystacina tuberculata bats, New Zealand

Richard J Hall et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014 Apr.

Abstract

Because of recent interest in bats as reservoirs of emerging diseases, we investigated the presence of viruses in Mystacina tuberculata bats in New Zealand. A novel alphacoronavirus sequence was detected in guano from roosts of M. tuberculata bats in pristine indigenous forest on a remote offshore island (Codfish Island).

Keywords: Mystacina tuberculata; New Zealand; alphacoronavirus; bats; coronavirus; guano; metagenomics; viruses.

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Figure 1
Phylogenetic tree showing genetic relatedness of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase amino acid sequences for Mystacina sp. bat coronavirus (CoV)/New Zealand/2013 (shown in boldface) with those of known coronaviruses. Evolutionary history was inferred for 183 informative amino acid sites by using the maximum-likelihood method based on the Whilan and Goldman model with gamma distribution in MEGA 5.05 software (www.megasoftware.net). Bootstrap values are calculated from 1,000 trees (only bootstrap values >50% are shown). Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. TGEV, transmissible gastroenteritis CoV; PRCV, porcine respiratory CoV; SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Phylogenetic tree showing genetic relatedness of spike protein amino acid sequence for Mystacina sp. bat coronavirus (CoV)/New Zealand/2013 (shown in boldface) with those of known coronaviruses. Evolutionary history was inferred for 492 informative amino acid sites by using the maximum-likelihood method based on the Whilan and Goldman + F model with gamma distribution and invariant sites in MEGA 5.05 software (www.megasoftware.net). Bootstrap values are calculated from 1,000 trees (only bootstrap values >50% are shown). Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. TGEV, transmissible gastroenteritis CoV; PRCV, porcine respiratory CoV; SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.
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