Phylogenetic characterization of Orthobunyaviruses isolated from Trinidad shows evidence of natural reassortment.

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"Funding This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01AI153433 to AJA. This work was partially supported by funding from the Trinidad and Tobago Government Research Grant Fund, and the Caribbean Health Research Council to CVFC. This work was also partially supported by an integrated seed grant from the Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Center for Emerging, Zoonotic and Arthropod-borne Pathogens at Virginia Tech. KL is supported by an Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science Doctoral fellowship and a Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. AJA and GE are supported by the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch VA-160103 and VA-160131 respectively."