Next generation sequencing was used to determine the whole genome sequence for two different strains of guinea pig adenovirus (GPAdV) detected in association with outbreaks of pneumonia in Australia in 1996, and in Germany in 1997 using total DNA extracted from infected archival frozen lung tissue as a template. The length of the determined genomic sequences was 37,031 bp and 37,070 bp, respectively. The nucleotide composition showed a relatively high content of guanine + cytosine (G + C) of 62 %. The 99.6 % nucleotide identity between the two sequenced viruses suggests that they may represent variants of the same genotype. The GPAdV genome exhibits the genomic features of a typical mastadenovirus with at least 32 open reading frames identified. Five novel open reading frames were found at the right end of the genomic sequence. One of them maps to the predicted E3 region and encodes a putative CR1 protein, two map to the E4 region, and two map to the 1 strand of L1 and L3, respectively. Our phylogenetic analysis of whole genome sequences showed that among the mammalian AdV species described to date, GPAdV is most closely related to MAdV-2 The characterization of this mastadenovirus species offers an opportunity to develop a new small animal model to study mammalian adenovirus pathogenesis.

The present study focuses on understanding the bank undercut mechanism under controlled conditions in a laboratory flume, using cohesive sediments collected from the toe region of Ganges River (India). The velocity data were analyzed to determine the turbulence characteristics such as mean velocities, Reynolds stresses, intensities and other higher order turbulence statistics. Wavelet analysis of velocity time series delivered knowledge on the frequency of occurence of the tubulent eddy scales. Results showed that large eddies are distributed at a lower frequency band upstream and downstream of the undercut regions, which enhance the bank undercut succession. However, for different Reynolds numbers, the generation of eddies is different which plays a significant role for different erosion rates.