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SUBMITTER: Chen L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6391014 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Linxia L Gu Wenpeng W Liu Chenxiu C Wang Wenguang W Li Na N Chen Yang Y Lu Caixia C Sun Xiaomei X Han Yuanyuan Y Kuang Dexuan D Tong Pinfen P Dai Jiejie J
PloS one 20190226 2
The tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri) has been proposed as an alternative laboratory animal to primates in biomedical research in recent years. However, characteristics of the tree shrew gut virome remain unclear. In this study, the metagenomic analysis method was used to identify the features of gut virome from fecal samples of this animal. Results showed that 5.80% of sequence reads in the libraries exhibited significant similarity to sequences deposited in the viral reference database (NCBI non-r ...[more]