A novel group of negative-sense RNA viruses associated with epizootics in managed and free-ranging freshwater turtles in Florida, USA

• Thomas B. Waltzek ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tomwaltzek@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Brian A. Stacy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources, University of Florida (duty station), Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4695-884X

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• Robert J. Ossiboff,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Comparative, Diagnostic, and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6951-6070

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• Nicole I. Stacy,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Comparative, Diagnostic, and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4258-4414

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• William A. Fraser,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Bronson Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Kissimmee, Florida, United States of America

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• Annie Yan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Bronson Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Kissimmee, Florida, United States of America

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• Shipra Mohan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Bronson Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Kissimmee, Florida, United States of America

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• Eugene V. Koonin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Yuri I. Wolf,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Thais C. S. Rodrigues,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-1295

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• Pedro H. O. Viadanna,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8171-4053

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• Kuttichantran Subramaniam,

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Vsevolod L. Popov,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6155-7150

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• Veronica Guzman-Vargas,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Lisa A. Shender

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5798-1063

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