Volume 17, Number 12—December 2011
Research
Astroviruses in Rabbits
Vito Martella
, Paschalina Moschidou, Pierfrancesco Pinto, Cristiana Catella, Constantina Desario, Vittorio Larocca, Elena Circella, Krisztian Bànyai, Antonio Lavazza, Chiara Magistrali, Nicola Decaro, and Canio Buonavoglia
, Paschalina Moschidou, Pierfrancesco Pinto, Cristiana Catella, Constantina Desario, Vittorio Larocca, Elena Circella, Krisztian Bànyai, Antonio Lavazza, Chiara Magistrali, Nicola Decaro, and Canio BuonavogliaTable 3
Comparison of full-length capsid protein of strain rabbit/Nausika/08/ITA and that of various mammalian and avian astroviruses*
| GenBank accession no./ species/strain | % aa identity to rabbit/Nausika/08/ITA† |
|
|---|---|---|
| RdRp (ORF1b) | Capsid (ORF2) | |
| AY720892/human/AstV1 | 62.7 | 21.8 |
| L06802/human/AstV2 | – | 22.3 |
| DQ630763/human/AstV3 | – | 22.5 |
| DQ070852/human/AstV4 | – | 22.2 |
| U15136/human/AstV5 | – | 22.0 |
| GQ495608/human/AstV6 | 61.4 | 21.9 |
| AF248738/human/AstV7 | 52.8 | 22.8 |
| AF260508/human/AstV8 | 61.4 | 22.7 |
| FJ973620/human/VA1 | – | 20.1 |
| GQ502193/human/VA2 | 52.5 | 19.7 |
| FJ222451/human/MLB1 | 61.4 | 19.6 |
| AF056197/cat | – | 21.7 |
| Y15937/sheep | 52.9 | 20.5 |
| AY179509/mink | 54.1 | 20.0 |
| AB037272/pig | – | 23.5 |
| FJ890351/CSL/AstV1 | 52.1 | 19.3 |
| FJ890352/CSL/AstV2 | 60.6 | 23.3 |
| FJ890355/bottlenose dolphin | 61.4 | 23.7 |
| EU847155/bat/AstV1 | – | 22.8 |
| FJ57174/bat/LC03 | – | 22.7 |
| FJ57065/bat/LD38 | 50.9 | 22.3 |
| HM045005/dog/Bari/08 | 57.7 | 23.7 |
| HM450382/rat/RS126/HKG/07 | 57.7 | 20.6 |
| GU985458/mink/SMS-AstV/Swe/01 | 54.1 | 19.6 |
| AB033998/chicken/ANV-1 | 36.8 | 14.9 |
| AB046864/chicken/ANV-2 | 36.4 | 14.5 |
| Y15936/turkey/AstV1 | 36.8 | 15.5 |
| AF206663/turkey/AstV2 | 35.6 | 14.2 |
| FJ434664/duck/C-NGB/China/08 | 37.2 | 13.4 |
*RdRP, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase; ORF, open reading frame; AstV, astrovirus; –, values not calculated; CSL, California sea lion; ANV, avian nephritis virus.
†Full-length aa capsid sequence and partial (245-aa residues) RdRp at the at the C-terminus were used to calculate identities.
