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  The species Megrivirus berockdo (formerly named Megrivirus B) contains three genotypes, megrivirus B1 (aka mesivirus 1), megrivirus B2 (aka mesivirus 2) and megrivirus B3CP-Apol (aka goose megrivirus 2).

Mesiviruses have been detected in wild pigeons in Hong Kong SAR and Hungary (Phan et al., 2013).

Origin of name mesivirus: Megrivirus sisterclade virus.

Genome organisation:

VPg+5'UTRIRES-IV[1AB-1C-1D/2A1-2A2H-box/NC-2B-2C/3A-3BVPg-3Cpro-3Dpol]3'UTR-poly(A)


References

Phan, T.G., Vo, N.P., Boros, Á., Pankovics, P., Reuter, G., Li, O.T.W., Wang, C., Deng, X., Poon, L.L.M. and Delwart, E. (2013). The viruses of wild pigeon droppings. PLoS ONE 8 (9): e72787.

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