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First molecular evidence for the existence of distinct fish and snake adenoviruses
Mária Benkó1, Péter Elo, Krisztina Ursu
1Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1581 Budapest, Hungary. benko@vmri.hu
Journal of Virology
|September 5, 2002
Abstract:
From adenovirus-like viruses originating from a fish and a snake species, a conserved part of the adenoviral DNA polymerase gene was PCR amplified, cloned and sequenced. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the snake adenovirus is closely related to the members of the proposed genus Atadenovirus, whereas the fish isolate seems to represent a separate cluster, likely a new genus.