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Jana Batovska1,2, Jan P Buchmann3, Edward C Holmes3
1Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia jana.batovska@agriculture.vic.gov.au.
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|January 11, 2020
Abstract:
Here, we report the detection of a novel alphavirus in Australian mosquitoes, provisionally named Yada Yada virus (YYV). Phylogenetic analysis indicated that YYV belongs to the mosquito-specific alphavirus complex. The assembled genome is 11,612 nucleotides in length and encodes two open reading frames.
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