gammacoronavirus

See also: Gammacoronavirus

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

gammacoronavirus (plural gammacoronaviruses)

1. Any virus of the genus Gammacoronavirus^ws.
   • 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:

     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.

Derived terms

• gammacoronaviral