Gallivirus

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Gallivirus is a picornavirus genus containing a single species Gallivirus A (Boros et al., 2012; Farkas et al., 2012 ) and an unassigned chicken gallivirus which may represent a second species (Lau et al., 2014).

Genome organisation:

VPg+5′UTR^IRES-II?[L/1AB-1C-1D/2A^H-Box/NC-2B-2C/3A-3B^VPg-3C^pro-3D^pol]3′UTR-poly(A)

References

Boros, A., Nemes, C., Pankovics, P., Kapusinszky, B., Delwart, E. and Reuter, G. (2012). Identification and complete genome characterization of a novel picornavirus in turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). J Gen Virol. 93: 2171-2182. Epub 2012 Aug 8.

Farkas, T., Fey, B., Hargitt 3rd, E., Parcells, M., Ladman, B., Murgia, M. and Saif, Y. (2012). Molecular detection of novel picornaviruses in chickens and turkeys. Virus Genes 44: 262-272. Epub 2011 Dec 13.

Lau, S.K., Woo, P.C., Yip, C.C., Li, K.S., Fan, R.Y., Bai, R., Huang, Y., Chan, K.H. and Yuen, K.Y. (2014). Chickens host diverse picornaviruses originated from potential interspecies transmission with recombination. J. Gen. Virol. 95: 1929-1944.