Characterization of a novel picornavirus isolate from a diseased European eel (Anguilla anguilla).

ABSTRACT: A novel picornavirus was isolated from specimens of a diseased European eel (Anguilla anguilla). This virus induced a cytopathic effect in eel embryonic kidney cells and high mortality in a controlled transmission study using elvers. Eel picornavirus has a genome of 7,496 nucleotides that encodes a polyprotein of 2,259 amino acids. It has a typical picornavirus genome layout, but its low similarity to known viral proteins suggests a novel species in the family Picornaviridae.

SUBMITTER: Fichtner D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3807381 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature