Statovirus identified in fecal samples from wild geladas in the Ethiopian Highlands
Viral RNA was extracted from the five samples using the High Pure Viral Nucleic Acid Kit (Roche Diagnostics, USA). RNA (2x150bp). Illumina sequencing libraries were prepared using the NEBNext Ultra II RNA library prep kit with additional steps for ribosomal and globin depletion following the QIAseq FastSelect RNA removal protocol. Libraries were sequenced (multiplied) on an Illumina Novaseq 6000 S4 flow cell at the Genomic Sciences Laboratory at North Carolina State University, USA.