Genome Sequence of a Divergent Avian Metapneumovirus from a Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)

Hanna Retallack; Susan Clubb; Joseph L DeRisi

doi:10.1128/MRA.00284-19

Genome Sequence of a Divergent Avian Metapneumovirus from a Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Apr 18;8(16):e00284-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00284-19.

Authors

Hanna Retallack¹, Susan Clubb², Joseph L DeRisi^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Rainforest Clinic for Birds and Exotics, Loxahatchee, Florida, USA.
³ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA joe@derisilab.ucsf.edu.
⁴ Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, California, USA.

Abstract

Here, we report the coding-complete genome sequence of an avian metapneumovirus from a monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus), identified by metagenomic next-generation sequencing during an investigation into a disease outbreak in a captive parrot breeding facility. Based on divergence from known strains, this sequence represents a new subgroup of avian metapneumovirus.

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