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Coronaviruses in the Sea Mordecai, Gideon; Hewson, Ian

Abstract

Interest in coronaviruses because of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has generated concern about their occurrence and persistence in aquatic habitats. Coronaviruses are not quantitatively significant constituents of marine virioplankton. Members of the Nidovirales (to which human coronaviruses belong) infect marine mammals, teleosts and possibly invertebrates, and human coronaviruses may persist in marine plankton receiving wastewater effluent. However, virions likely experience significant particle and infectivity decay rates in surface seawater, similar to other enveloped RNA viruses.

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Title
Coronaviruses in the Sea
Creator
Mordecai, Gideon; Hewson, Ian
Publisher
Frontiers
Date Issued
2020-07-24
Description
Interest in coronaviruses because of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has generated concern about their occurrence and persistence in aquatic habitats. Coronaviruses are not quantitatively significant constituents of marine virioplankton. Members of the Nidovirales (to which human coronaviruses belong) infect marine mammals, teleosts and possibly invertebrates, and human coronaviruses may persist in marine plankton receiving wastewater effluent. However, virions likely experience significant particle and infectivity decay rates in surface seawater, similar to other enveloped RNA viruses.
Subject
coronavirus; Nidovirales; virome; virioplankton; disease
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2021-04-14
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0396707
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/77788
Affiliation
Science, Faculty of; Non UBC; Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
Citation
Mordecai GJ and Hewson I (2020) Coronaviruses in the Sea. Front. Microbiol. 11:1795.
Publisher DOI
10.3389/fmicb.2020.01795
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Postdoctoral
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Authors
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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