title: Complete genome sequence of a duck astrovirus discovered in eastern China.
abstract: We report here the complete genome sequence of a duck astrovirus (DAstV) isolated from a dead duckling in eastern China. Sequence analyses indicated that the genome of the astrovirus possessed a typical astrovirus organization. Comparison of the partial polymerase gene sequences of DAstV-1 and DAstV-2 showed that the astrovirus shared 94.4% and 64.2% nucleotide identity, respectively. The whole nucleotide sequence of the astrovirus had the highest homology with the sequence of DAstV-1 strain C-NGB (98.7%). Therefore, the strain we describe here is a DAstV-1 isolate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China.
authors.forename: Linlin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Ruihua
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jingxin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhijing
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yanli
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Shijin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019200:Astroviridae / Q000235:genetics*; D002681:China; D004372:Ducks / Q000821:virology*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames