| asian black bear (ursus thibetanus) picornavirus related to seal aquamavirus a. | the complete genome of a bear picornavirus 1 (bepv-1) in the viscera of an asian black bear (ursus thibetanus) from china was characterized using viral metagenomics and rt-pcr/sanger sequencing. the genome of bepv1 is 6703 nt long, contains a type-iv ires 5'utr with the '8-like' motif, encodes a 2053-aa-long polyprotein showing a 3-4-4 organization pattern and two 2a genes. bepv-1 showed the highest overall genome nucleotide sequence identity of 71.7% to a picornavirus genome from an arctic ring ... | 2019 | 30569277 |