Metagenome-assembled genomes of papillomaviruses from mallard and northern pintail cloacal swabs

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2026 Aug 5:e0072626. doi: 10.1128/mra.00726-26. Online ahead of print.

ABSTRACT

There is little known about papillomavirus diversity in waterfowl. From cloacal swabs of one mallard and three northern pintails sampled in New Mexico (USA), we identified four papillomavirus genomes. These papillomaviruses share >92.7% genome-wide nucleotide pairwise identity with Anas platyrhynchos papillomavirus 3 (AplaPV3) identified from a mallard in Missouri (USA).

PMID:42554471 | DOI:10.1128/mra.00726-26