User:AmeliaHayden/sandbox

Pick and Draft Your Article Assignment

Find and assign yourself an article. In your sandbox, write a few sentences about what you plan to contribute to the selected article. Identify what's missing from the current form of the article. Make notes for improvement in your sandbox. Compile a list of relevant, reliable books, journal articles, or other sources. Post that bibliography to the talk page of the article you'll be working on, and in your sandbox.
 * Asama virus
 * There is very little information provided in the Asama virus article. I plan on adding basic background information that is usually found in the lead of the article. (A lead section is not a traditional introduction. It should summarize, very briefly, what the rest of the article will say in detail. The first paragraph should include important, broad facts about the subject.)
 * A good lead is missing from the current form of the article.
 * My lead for the Asama virus article:
 * Asama virus (ASAV) is a single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA hantavirus. The hantavirus was found in Japan after analyzing a Japanese shrew mole. Hantaviruses harbored by shrews are genetically closer to ASAV than to hantaviruses harbored by rodents. Host-switching may be evident in the future due to the viruses closeness to soricine shrew-borne hantaviruses. The detection of the asama virus was the first hantavirus found in the family Talpidae, which includes shrew moles. Thoughts on hantavirus evolutionary history has expanded due to the discovery of ASAV.
 * Asama virus is related to soricine shrew-borne hantaviruses that are found in North America, Europe, and Asia. This relation was discovered through phylogenetic analyses. The relationship between the two hantaviruses may suggest parallel evolution associated with cross-species transmission.[3]