Genome Sequence of a Bornavirus Recovered from an African Garter Snake (Elapsoidea loveridgei)

Mark D Stenglein; Eli B Leavitt; Michael A Abramovitch; Jimmy A McGuire; Joseph L DeRisi

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00779-14

Genome Sequence of a Bornavirus Recovered from an African Garter Snake (Elapsoidea loveridgei)

Genome Announc. 2014 Oct 9;2(5):e00779-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00779-14.

Authors

Mark D Stenglein¹, Eli B Leavitt¹, Michael A Abramovitch¹, Jimmy A McGuire², Joseph L DeRisi³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
³ [email protected].

Abstract

Bornaviruses are known to infect mammals and birds, and they have been associated with disease in both groups of animals. Here, we report the genome sequence of a bornavirus identified in a wild-caught Loveridge's garter snake (Elapsoidea loveridgei).