Alphacoronavirus
"Alphacoronavirus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of the family CORONAVIRIDAE which causes respiratory or gastrointestinal disease in a variety of mammals. Human alphacoronaviruses include Human coronavirus 229E and NL63. All members share the identical core transcription regulatory sequences of 5’-CUAAAC-3’ and most have 1 to 2 ORFs downstream to the N protein gene.
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D000073638
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.820.504.540.150.075
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| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Alphacoronavirus" by people in Profiles.
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Pollock DD, Castoe TA, Perry BW, Lytras S, Wade KJ, Robertson DL, Holmes EC, Boni MF, Kosakovsky Pond SL, Parry R, Carlton EJ, Wood JLN, Pennings PS, Goldstein RA. Viral CpG Deficiency Provides No Evidence That Dogs Were Intermediate Hosts for SARS-CoV-2. Mol Biol Evol. 2020 09 01; 37(9):2706-2710.