Sequences were analyzed and assembled using Vector NTI 11.5, then submitted to the GenBank database in NCBI using the software Sequin. The reconstructed genome was subjected to standard sequence analyses: (I) prediction of ORFs using the ORF Finder program in NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gorf/); (II) identification of conserved and functional domains of the predicted proteins in WCLaV-1 and WCLaV-2 using the Conserved Domain Database (CDD) in NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/cdd.shtml) (Marchler-Bauer et al., 2015) and the SMART tool (http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/) (Letunic et al., 2015); analyses of the core RdRp and NP domains in other (-ss) RNA viruses using the CDD; (III) multiple sequence alignment of the core motifs in RdRp and the conserved nucleotide sequence at the 5′- and 3′-end by CLC Genomics Workbench 9.5; (IV) identity analyses using the needle program in WebLab (http://weblab.cbi.pku.edu.cn/); (V) multiple sequence alignments first using the Clustal W method and then MEGA 6.0 (Tamura et al., 2013) for phylogenetic tree construction using the neighbor-joining method with 1,000 bootstrap replicates, the Poisson model and pairwise gap deletion options. Abbreviations and accession numbers of viruses used in this study are listed in Table S5.
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