Gadgets Gully virus (GGYV) is an arbovirus, a member of the genus flavivirus (family Flaviviridae) isolated first time from a hard tick Ixodes uriae,[1] and named after Gadget's Gully on Macquarie Island in the southwest Pacific Ocean. Antibodies to the virus have been found in humans and in several species of penguin. Certain species of seabird are thought to be the natural reservoirs of the virus.

Gadgets-Gully-Virus
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(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Kitrinoviricota
Class: Flasuviricetes
Order: Amarillovirales
Family: Flaviviridae
Genus: Flavivirus
Species:
Gadgets-Gully-Virus

Intraspecies genetic diversity

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The delimitation analysis demonstrated that two isolates of GGYV available in GenBank and collected from Australia and Antarctica can be considered as two different virus species.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Humphery-Smith I, Cybinski DH, Byrnes KA, St George TD (1991). "Seroepidemiology of arboviruses among seabirds and island residents of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea". Epidemiol. Infect. 107 (2): 435–40. doi:10.1017/S0950268800049086. PMC 2272077. PMID 1657626.
  2. ^ Bondaryuk, Artem N.; Andaev, Evgeny I.; Dzhioev, Yurij P.; Zlobin, Vladimir I.; Tkachev, Sergey E.; Kozlova, Irina V.; Bukin, Yurij S. (January 2022). "Delimitation of the Tick-Borne Flaviviruses. Resolving the Tick-Borne Encephalitis virus and Louping-Ill Virus Paraphyletic Taxa". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 169: 107411. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107411. PMID 35032647. S2CID 245950201.