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. 2020 Aug 20;9(34):e00742-20.
doi: 10.1128/MRA.00742-20.

Complete Genome Sequence of an Alphacoronavirus from Common Vampire Bats in Peru

Laura M Bergner  1   2 , Richard J Orton  2 , Daniel G Streicker  3   2
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Complete Genome Sequence of an Alphacoronavirus from Common Vampire Bats in Peru

Laura M Bergner et al. Microbiol Resour Announc. .

Abstract

Bats host diverse coronaviruses, including taxa capable of pandemic spread in humans. We report the genome of an alphacoronavirus from a neotropical bat species (Desmodus rotundus) in Peru, which contributes to our understanding of bat coronaviruses in nature.

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RdRp phylogeny including the novel vampire bat alphacoronavirus. The maximum likelihood tree was based on a 272-amino-acid alignment of 40 RdRp sequences, including the novel vampire bat CoV. Human-infecting species are indicated by names in parentheses. The scale bar represents the mean expected rate of substitutions per site. Node support is from 1,000 bootstrap replicates.
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