Interferon-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats 5 of black fruit bat (<i>Pteropus alecto</i>) displays a broad inhibition of RNA viruses.

"the sequence was found to be identical to the ifit5 available in the genbank under (xm_006925963) and was used in this study."

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"The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. The project is financially supported by the Royal Society Grants (2015/R2 (inc CNRS) and RG2014 R2) and British Council grant (172710323 and 332228521). AF is a CNPq research fellow."