Abstract
Spurred by the recent isolation of a novel hantavirus, named Imjin virus (MJNV), from the Ussuri white-toothed shrew (Crocidura lasiura), targeted trapping was conducted for the phylogenetically related Asian lesser white-toothed shrew (Crocidura shantungensis). Pair-wise alignment and comparison of the S, M and L segments of a newfound hantavirus, designated Jeju virus (JJUV), indicated remarkably low nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarity with MJNV. Phylogenetic analyses, using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods, showed divergent ancestral lineages for JJUV and MJNV, despite the close phylogenetic relationship of their reservoir soricid hosts. Also, no evidence of host switching was apparent in tanglegrams, generated by TreeMap 2.0β.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 99-105 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Virology |
Volume | 424 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 Mar 15 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank Satoshi D. Ohdachi for helpful suggestions. This research was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid Research on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Health Labour Sciences Research Grant in Japan (H22-Shinko-Ippan-006), by the International Cooperative Research (no. 19406008 ) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, by the Korean Ministry of Environment as “The Eco-technopia 21 project”, and by Institute of Biomedical Science & Food Safety, Korea University . Also, support was provided by the U.S. Public Health Service grants R01AI075057 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and P20RR018727 (Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence) and G12RR003061 (Research Centers in Minority Institutions) from the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health .
Keywords
- Crocidura
- Hantavirus
- Jeju Island
- Korea
- Phylogeny
- Shrews
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Virology