Meanings
noungammacoronavirus (plural gammacoronaviruses)
plural gammacoronaviruses
- Any virus of the genus Gammacoronavirus.
While gammacoronaviruses mainly comprise infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) and its closely related bird coronaviruses (CoVs), the only mammalian gammacoronavirus was discovered from a white beluga whale (beluga whale CoV [BWCoV] SW1) in 2008.
2014 January, Patrick C. Y. Woo, “Discovery of a novel bottlenose dolphin coronavirus reveals a distinct species of marine mammal coronavirus in Gammacoronavirus”, in Journal of Virology, volume 88, number 2, page 1318
Origin
From the genus name.
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