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SUBMITTER: Oberhuber M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8473393 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oberhuber Martina M Schopf Anika A Hennrich Alexandru Adrian AA Santos-Mandujano Rosalía R Huhn Anna Gesine AG Seitz Stefan S Riedel Christiane C Conzelmann Karl-Klaus KK
Viruses 20210830 9
Lyssaviruses are neurotropic rhabdoviruses thought to be restricted to mammalian hosts, and to originate from bats. The identification of lyssavirus sequences from amphibians and reptiles by metatranscriptomics thus comes as a surprise and challenges the mammalian origin of lyssaviruses. The novel sequences of the proposed American tree frog lyssavirus (ATFLV) and anole lizard lyssavirus (ALLV) reveal substantial phylogenetic distances from each other and from bat lyssaviruses, with ATFLV being ...[more]