TY - JOUR
T1 - Diverse genomoviruses representing eight new and one known species identified in feces and nests of house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus)
AU - Schmidlin, Kara
AU - Sepp, Tuul
AU - Khalifeh, Anthony
AU - Smith, Kendal
AU - Fontenele, Rafaela S.
AU - McGraw, Kevin J.
AU - Varsani, Arvind
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This work was supported by an RTI grant from the School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (USA), awarded to Tuul Sepp, Kevin McGraw and Arvind Varsani. Field work was supported by the Arizona Field Ornithologists’ Gale Monson Research grant and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 701747 to Tuul Sepp.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by an RTI grant from the School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (USA), awarded to Tuul Sepp, Kevin McGraw and Arvind Varsani. Field work was supported by the Arizona Field Ornithologists? Gale Monson Research grant and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 701747 to Tuul Sepp.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - House finches are desert birds native to Mexico and the southwestern United States of America. They are relatively well studied in terms of their diet, breeding, and migration patterns, but knowledge regarding viruses associated with these birds is limited. DNA viruses in fecal and nest samples of finches sampled in Phoenix (Arizona, USA) were identified using high-throughput sequencing. Seventy-three genomoviruses were identified, belonging to four genera: Gemycircularvirus (n = 27), Gemykibivirus (n = 41), Gemykroznavirus (n = 3) and Gemykrogvirus (n = 2). These 73 finch genomoviruses represent nine species, eight of which are novel. This study reiterates that these genomoviruses are ubiquitous in ecosystems.
AB - House finches are desert birds native to Mexico and the southwestern United States of America. They are relatively well studied in terms of their diet, breeding, and migration patterns, but knowledge regarding viruses associated with these birds is limited. DNA viruses in fecal and nest samples of finches sampled in Phoenix (Arizona, USA) were identified using high-throughput sequencing. Seventy-three genomoviruses were identified, belonging to four genera: Gemycircularvirus (n = 27), Gemykibivirus (n = 41), Gemykroznavirus (n = 3) and Gemykrogvirus (n = 2). These 73 finch genomoviruses represent nine species, eight of which are novel. This study reiterates that these genomoviruses are ubiquitous in ecosystems.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00705-019-04318-6
DO - 10.1007/s00705-019-04318-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 31214783
AN - SCOPUS:85067680867
SN - 0304-8608
VL - 164
SP - 2345
EP - 2350
JO - Archives of virology
JF - Archives of virology
IS - 9
ER -