%0 Journal Article %A Zhang, Wen %A Li, Linlin %A Deng, Xutao %A Kapusinszky, Beatrix %A Pesavento, Patricia A. %A Delwart, Eric %T Faecal virome of cats in an animal shelter %D 2014 %J Journal of General Virology, %V 95 %N 11 %P 2553-2564 %@ 1465-2099 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.069674-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X We describe the metagenomics-derived feline enteric virome in the faeces of 25 cats from a single shelter in California. More than 90 % of the recognizable viral reads were related to mammalian viruses and the rest to bacterial viruses. Eight viral families were detected: Astroviridae, Coronaviridae, Parvoviridae, Circoviridae, Herpesviridae, Anelloviridae, Caliciviridae and Picobirnaviridae. Six previously known viruses were also identified: feline coronavirus type 1, felid herpes 1, feline calicivirus, feline norovirus, feline panleukopenia virus and picobirnavirus. Novel species of astroviruses and bocaviruses, and the first genome of a cyclovirus in a feline were characterized. The RNA-dependent RNA polymerase region from four highly divergent partial viral genomes in the order Picornavirales were sequenced. The detection of such a diverse collection of viruses shed within a single shelter suggested that such animals experience robust viral exposures. This study increases our understanding of the viral diversity in cats, facilitating future evaluation of their pathogenic and zoonotic potentials. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/vir.0.069674-0