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    Souza, William Marciel de; Romeiro, Marilia Farignoli; Fumagalli, Marcílio Jorge; Modha, Sejal; de Araujo, Jansen; Queiroz, Luzia Helena; Durigon, Edison Luiz; Figueiredo, Luiz Tadeu Moraes; Murcia, Pablo Ramiro; Gifford, Robert James

    Journal of general virology, 02/2017, Letnik: 98, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    Chapparvoviruses are a highly divergent group of parvoviruses (family Parvoviridae) that have recently been identified via metagenomic sampling of animal faeces. Here, we report the sequences of six novel chapparvoviruses identified through both metagenomic sampling of bat tissues and in silico screening of published vertebrate genome assemblies. The novel chapparvoviruses share several distinctive genomic features and group together as a robustly supported monophyletic clade in phylogenetic trees. Our data indicate that chapparvoviruses have a broad host range in vertebrates and a global distribution.