| discovery of a unique novel clade of mosquito-associated bunyaviruses. | bunyaviruses are the largest known family of rna viruses, infecting vertebrates, insects, and plants. here we isolated three novel bunyaviruses from mosquitoes sampled in côte d'ivoire, ghana, and uganda. the viruses define a highly diversified monophyletic sister clade to all members of the genus orthobunyavirus and are virtually equidistant to orthobunyaviruses and tospoviruses. maximal amino acid identities between homologous putative proteins of the novel group and orthobunyaviruses ranged b ... | 2013 | 24067954 |