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Comment If this article is a start-class, the concern that the reviewer may ask is does it addresses the main aspects of the topic?
AJona1992 (
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20:13, 27 June 2011 (UTC)reply
It is start-class only because I put the template there when I started the talk page, and it is generally accepted that one should not assess one's own articles higher than Start-class. The article covers all aspects of the virus that we know about.
Ucucha20:31, 27 June 2011 (UTC)reply
"Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, the disease caused by hantaviruses such as Sin Nombre virus, has never been reported in Mexico, antibodies against hantaviruses have been found in human blood samples in Yucatán and various wild rodents are known to be reservoirs of hantavirus species." Is this sentence missing "Although" at the beginning?
"The S segment consists of 1953 bases, of which 1287 (starting at position 43) make up the nucleocapsid protein." More accurately, the segment codes for the nucleocapsid protein
"OROV is most closely related to the clade" is it possible to be related to a clade?
Why not? Perhaps more precise would be "OROV is sister to the clade", but that is cladistic jargon that I wanted to avoid.
Ucucha22:19, 29 June 2011 (UTC)reply
Seems unnecessary; the name of the taxon (mexicanus) is already mentioned in the next sentence, and previously recognized subspecies are obscure enough that we can do without them.
Ucucha22:19, 29 June 2011 (UTC)reply
I think it would be good to mention the guidelines for declaring a virus a new species, and the authors' justification against this set of criteria (already briefly mentioned at the end of the History and occurrence section, but some bit more discussion would be good)
I've added a little. I feel like adding more would be undue weight for a matter that is only discussed briefly in Chu et al. (2009). Ideally, there would be an article on
virus species or so to link to, but of course there isn't one.
Ucucha22:19, 29 June 2011 (UTC)reply
"According to phylogenetic analyses" in this case, a link to molecular phylogenetics might be more germaine