title: Complete genome sequence analysis of a Newcastle disease virus isolated from a wild egret.
abstract: We report here the complete genomic sequence of a novel Newcastle disease virus (NDV) strain, egret/China/Guangxi/2011, isolated from an egret in Guangxi Province, southern China. A phylogenetic analysis based on a fusion gene comparison with different NDV strains revealed that egret/China/Guangxi/2011 was phylogenetically close to genotype VIIa NDV, and the deduced amino acid sequence was (112)R-R-R-K-R-F(117) at the fusion protein cleavage site. The whole nucleotide sequence had the highest homology (93.3%) with the sequence of strain chicken/Sukorejo/019/10 (GenBank accession number HQ697255). This study will help us to understand the epidemiology and molecular characteristics of Newcastle disease virus in a migratory egret.
authors.affiliation: Guangxi Key Laboratory of Animal Vaccines and Diagnostics, Guangxi Veterinary Research Institute, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China. xiezhixun@126.com
authors.forename: Zhixun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Liji
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Anli
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jiabo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yaoshan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: Xianwen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Zhiqin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000821:virology*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009522:Newcastle disease virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010802:Phylogeny