A Divergent Hepatitis D-Like Agent in Birds
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Ethics Statement
2.2. Sample Selection, RNA Library Construction and Sequencing
2.3. RNA Virus Discovery
2.4. Characterisation of Novel Hepatitis D-Like Virus
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Supplementary File 1Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Wille, M.; Netter, H.J.; Littlejohn, M.; Yuen, L.; Shi, M.; Eden, J.-S.; Klaassen, M.; Holmes, E.C.; Hurt, A.C. A Divergent Hepatitis D-Like Agent in Birds. Viruses 2018, 10, 720. https://doi.org/10.3390/v10120720
Wille M, Netter HJ, Littlejohn M, Yuen L, Shi M, Eden J-S, Klaassen M, Holmes EC, Hurt AC. A Divergent Hepatitis D-Like Agent in Birds. Viruses. 2018; 10(12):720. https://doi.org/10.3390/v10120720
Chicago/Turabian StyleWille, Michelle, Hans J. Netter, Margaret Littlejohn, Lilly Yuen, Mang Shi, John-Sebastian Eden, Marcel Klaassen, Edward C. Holmes, and Aeron C. Hurt. 2018. "A Divergent Hepatitis D-Like Agent in Birds" Viruses 10, no. 12: 720. https://doi.org/10.3390/v10120720
APA StyleWille, M., Netter, H. J., Littlejohn, M., Yuen, L., Shi, M., Eden, J.-S., Klaassen, M., Holmes, E. C., & Hurt, A. C. (2018). A Divergent Hepatitis D-Like Agent in Birds. Viruses, 10(12), 720. https://doi.org/10.3390/v10120720