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SUBMITTER: Vasilakis N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3755043 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vasilakis Nikos N Widen Steven S Mayer Sandra V SV Seymour Robert R Wood Thomas G TG Popov Vsevolov V Guzman Hilda H Travassos da Rosa Amelia P A AP Ghedin Elodie E Holmes Edward C EC Walker Peter J PJ Tesh Robert B RB
Virology 20130614 1-2
Members of the family Rhabdoviridae have been assigned to eight genera but many remain unassigned. Rhabdoviruses have a remarkably diverse host range that includes terrestrial and marine animals, invertebrates and plants. Transmission of some rhabdoviruses often requires an arthropod vector, such as mosquitoes, midges, sandflies, ticks, aphids and leafhoppers, in which they replicate. Herein we characterize Niakha virus (NIAV), a previously uncharacterized rhabdovirus isolated from phebotomine s ...[more]