TY - JOUR
T1 - Novel adenovirus associated with common tern (Sterna hirundo) chicks
AU - Kraberger, Simona
AU - Oswald, Stephen A.
AU - Arnold, Jennifer M.
AU - Schmidlin, Kara
AU - Custer, Joy M.
AU - Levi, Grace
AU - Benkő, Mária
AU - Harrach, Balázs
AU - Varsani, Arvind
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Katie Rutt, Laura Ingraham, Anthony Mazza, Jenna Diehl, and Carolyn Degurski for assistance in the field. We also thank Christopher Kyle and Erica Nol for use of lab facilities at Trent University (Canada). Funding from Friends of Presqu’ile helped support fieldwork. B.H. was supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary (NN140356). The molecular work was supported by Startup funds awarded to A.V. from Arizona State University (USA).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - Adenoviruses have been identified in a wide variety of avian species, and in some species, they have been shown to cause disease and increase mortality. As part of an endeavor to investigate viruses associated with common terns (Sterna hirundo), a novel adenovirus was identified in fecal samples from two common terns on Gull Island, Lake Ontario, Canada. The coding-complete genome sequence of the new adenovirus is 31,094 bp, containing 28 putative genes, and this is the first adenovirus to be associated with terns. The virus was identified in two out of 13 fecal samples from tern chicks, and it was found to be most closely related to duck adenovirus 1, with the DNA polymerase sharing 58% amino acid sequence identity. Phylogenetic analysis based on DNA polymerase protein sequences showed that the new virus forms a distinct sub-branch within the atadenovirus clade and likely represents a new species in this genus.
AB - Adenoviruses have been identified in a wide variety of avian species, and in some species, they have been shown to cause disease and increase mortality. As part of an endeavor to investigate viruses associated with common terns (Sterna hirundo), a novel adenovirus was identified in fecal samples from two common terns on Gull Island, Lake Ontario, Canada. The coding-complete genome sequence of the new adenovirus is 31,094 bp, containing 28 putative genes, and this is the first adenovirus to be associated with terns. The virus was identified in two out of 13 fecal samples from tern chicks, and it was found to be most closely related to duck adenovirus 1, with the DNA polymerase sharing 58% amino acid sequence identity. Phylogenetic analysis based on DNA polymerase protein sequences showed that the new virus forms a distinct sub-branch within the atadenovirus clade and likely represents a new species in this genus.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00705-021-05324-3
DO - 10.1007/s00705-021-05324-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 35066682
AN - SCOPUS:85123464531
SN - 0304-8608
VL - 167
SP - 659
EP - 663
JO - Archives of virology
JF - Archives of virology
IS - 2
ER -