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Three Novel Avastroviruses Identified in Dead Wild Crows

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (Grant No. XDB29010102), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 31870163 and 32061123001), the Academic Promotion Programme of Shandong First Medical University (2019QL006). W.S. is supported by the Taishan Scholars program of Shandong Province. Y.B. is supported by the NSFC Outstanding Young Scholars (Grant No. 31822055), and Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS (Grant No. 2017122).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, College of Animal Science and Technology and College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang, A&F University, Lin’an, 311300, China

    Chunge Zhang, Yongchun Yang, Xiaodu Wang & Houhui Song

  2. CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Center for Influenza Research and Early-Warning (CASCIRE), CAS-TWAS Center of Excellence for Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEEID), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Chunge Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Jian Cao, George F. Gao & Yuhai Bi

  3. Key Laboratory of Etiology and Epidemiology of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Universities of Shandong, School of Public Health, Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Taian, 271016, China

    Tao Hu, Hong Zhou, Juan Li, Peihan Wang & Weifeng Shi

  4. Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China

    Gary Wong

  5. Département de microbiologie-infectiologie et d’immunologie, Université Laval, Québec City, G1V 0A6, Canada

    Gary Wong

  6. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    George F. Gao & Yuhai Bi

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Zhang, C., Yang, Y., Hu, T. et al. Three Novel Avastroviruses Identified in Dead Wild Crows. Virol. Sin. 36, 1673–1677 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12250-021-00416-5

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