A Novel Chiropteran Circovirus Genome Recovered from a Brazilian Insectivorous Bat Species.

ABSTRACT: This report describes the identification and characterization of a novel circovirus using metagenomic approaches in respiratory fluid samples from Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). The genome and deduced protein sequences share low identity with another circovirus recovered in distantly related bats from China.

SUBMITTER: Lima FE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4661317 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature