title: Parvovirus-derived endogenous viral elements in two South American rodent genomes.
abstract: We describe endogenous viral elements (EVEs) derived from parvoviruses (family Parvoviridae) in the genomes of the long-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera) and the degu (Octodon degus). The novel EVEs include dependovirus-related elements and representatives of a clearly distinct parvovirus lineage that also has endogenous representatives in marsupial genomes. In the degu, one dependovirus-derived EVE was found to carry an intact reading frame and was differentially expressed in vivo, with increased expression in the liver.
authors: Universidad Andres Bello, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Quillota 980, Viña del Mar, Chile gloria.arriagada@unab.cl robert.gifford@glasgow.ac.uk.
authors: Gloria
authors: G
authors: Arriagada
authors: MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom gloria.arriagada@unab.cl robert.gifford@glasgow.ac.uk.
authors: Robert J
authors: RJ
authors: Gifford
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002682:Chinchilla / Q000235:genetics* / Q000821:virology; D016678:Genome; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017992:Parvovirus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid