title: The viruses of wild pigeon droppings.
abstract: Birds are frequent sources of emerging human infectious diseases. Viral particles were enriched from the feces of 51 wild urban pigeons (Columba livia) from Hong Kong and Hungary, their nucleic acids randomly amplified and then sequenced. We identified sequences from known and novel species from the viral families Circoviridae, Parvoviridae, Picornaviridae, Reoviridae, Adenovirus, Astroviridae, and Caliciviridae (listed in decreasing number of reads), as well as plant and insect viruses likely originating from consumed food. The near full genome of a new species of a proposed parvovirus genus provisionally called Aviparvovirus contained an unusually long middle ORF showing weak similarity to an ORF of unknown function from a fowl adenovirus. Picornaviruses found in both Asia and Europe that are distantly related to the turkey megrivirus and contained a highly divergent 2A1 region were named mesiviruses. All eleven segments of a novel rotavirus subgroup related to a chicken rotavirus in group G were sequenced and phylogenetically analyzed. This study provides an initial assessment of the enteric virome in the droppings of pigeons, a feral urban species with frequent human contact.
authors.affiliation: Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America ; Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
authors.forename: Tung Gia
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Phan
authors.forename: Nguyen Phung
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Vo
authors.forename: Ákos
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Boros
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pankovics
authors.forename: Gábor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Reuter
authors.forename: Olive T W
authors.initials: OT
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Chunling
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xutao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Leo L M
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Poon
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Delwart
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D010856:Columbidae / Q000821:virology*; D005243:Feces / Q000821:virology*; D016679:Genome, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D007304:Insect Viruses / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010849:Picornaviridae / Q000235:genetics; D014780:Viruses / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*
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