title: A gyrovirus infecting a sea bird.
abstract: We characterized the genome of a highly divergent gyrovirus (GyV8) in the spleen and uropygial gland tissues of a diseased northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), a pelagic bird beached in San Francisco, California. No other exogenous viral sequences could be identified using viral metagenomics. The small circular DNA genome shared no significant nucleotide sequence identity, and only 38-42 % amino acid sequence identity in VP1, with any of the previously identified gyroviruses. GyV8 is the first member of the third major phylogenetic clade of this viral genus and the first gyrovirus detected in an avian species other than chicken.
authors.affiliation: Blood Systems Research Institute, 270 Masonic Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94118, USA.
authors.forename: Linlin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Pesavento
authors.forename: Anne M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Gaynor
authors.forename: Rebecca S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Duerr
authors.forename: Tung Gia
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Phan
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xutao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Delwart
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001715:Bird Diseases / Q000821:virology*; D001717:Birds; D018173:Circoviridae Infections / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D016679:Genome, Viral; D046810:Gyrovirus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny