Evaluation of metatranscriptomic sequencing protocols to obtain full-length RNA virus genomes from mammalian tissues

• Yiqiao Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4826-6874

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• Mariana Polychronopoulou,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Ine Boonen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Antonios Fikatas,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Sophie Gryseels,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Evolutionary Ecology group (EVECO), Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Anne Laudisoit,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Evolutionary Ecology group (EVECO), Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Joelle Gouy de Bellocq,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Vertebrate Biology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5831-6284

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• Bram Vrancken,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Spatial Epidemiology Lab (SpELL), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

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• Gkikas Magiorkinis,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Philippe Lemey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2826-5353

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• Magda Bletsa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: m.bletsa@pasteur.gr

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Bioinformatics and Applied Genomics, Department of Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3184-6618

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