| ticks associated with macquarie island penguins carry arboviruses from four genera. | macquarie island, a small subantarctic island, is home to rockhopper, royal and king penguins, which are often infested with the globally distributed seabird tick, ixodes uriae. a flavivirus, an orbivirus, a phlebovirus, and a nairovirus were isolated from these ticks and partial sequences obtained. the flavivirus was nearly identical to gadgets gully virus, isolated some 30 year previously, illustrating the remarkable genetic stability of this virus. the nearest relative to the orbivirus (for w ... | 2009 | 19194498 |
| [genetic characterization of new komandory virus (komv; bunyaviridae, phlebovirus) isolated from the ticks ixodes uriae, collected in guillemot (uria aalge) nesting sites on komandorski islands, the bering sea]. | unclassified virus named komandory virus (komv) isolated in komandorski islands from the ticks ixodes uriae in 1986 was partially sequenced. the komv nucleocapsid (n) protein sequence shows 30-40% identity level with the mosquito-borne phleboviruses and 43% with the uukuniemi virus (uukv) group (phlebovirus, bunyaviridae). the maximum identity (65%) for the komv n protein is observed for the manawa virus. the komv glycoprotein identity with the uukv group viruses ranges from 45% to 59%. the komv ... | 2016 | 24772641 |