The Genetic Diversity and Interspecific Transmission of Circovirus in <i>Rhizomys sinensis</i> in Guangdong, Southern China.

ABSTRACT: Circoviruses are a group of small circular, single-stranded DNA viruses that belong to the family Circoviridae. They are known to infect a wide variety of animals. Rhizomys sinensis is a species of rodent that is the reservoir of many zoonotic pathogens. Our previous study identified many sequencing reads mapped to the genome of viruses in Circoviridae in R. sinensis. However, little is known about the circulation and genetic characterization of circoviruses in R. sinensis. This study identified three different circoviruses in samples from 195 R. sinensis. First, the bamboo rat circovirus is widely prevalent in R. sinensis in Guangdong Province, and all strains could be divided into three clades based on nucleotide substitutions at specific

SUBMITTER: Ren Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12017068 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature