| discovery, diversity and evolution of novel coronaviruses sampled from rodents in china. | although rodents are important reservoirs for rna viruses, to date only one species of rodent coronavirus (cov) has been identified. herein, we describe a new cov, denoted lucheng rn rat coronavirus (lrnv), and novel variants of two betacoronavirus species termed longquan aa mouse coronavirus (lamv) and longquan rl rat coronavirus (lrlv), that were identified in a survey of 1465 rodents sampled in china during 2011-2013. phylogenetic analysis revealed that lamv and lrlv fell into lineage a of th ... | 2015 | 25463600 |