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01-08-2019 | Annotated Sequence Record
A novel bat-associated circovirus identified in northern Hokkaido, Japan
Published in: Archives of Virology | Issue 8/2019
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We identified two novel circoviruses, HK02976 and HK00220, in oral swabs from bats. The size of their full genome was 2,010 nucleotides (nt). The full-genome sequence of our strains shared 96.1% nucleotide sequence identity with each other, and 39.9%–69.5% identity with bat-associated circoviruses (BatACVs)1–9. Based on the species demarcation threshold for viruses of the family Circoviridae, which is 80% genome-wide nucleotide sequence identity, we have tentatively named this group of viruses “bat-associated circovirus 10” (BatACV10).