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We thank Wen Cui and Hongliang Tian for data collection at beamline BL17U1 and BL18U1 of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF); Jun Li for data collection at beamline I04 of DIAMOND Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Britain); Xia Chen for technical support; Michael Rossmann, Lei Sun, and Erin Weber for discussion and advice. This work was supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 program; 2015CB859800), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81772204 and 31528006), and the National Key Research Program of China (2016YFD0500300).
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Li, T., Zhao, Q., Yang, X. et al. Structural insight into the Zika virus capsid encapsulating the viral genome. Cell Res 28, 497–499 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-018-0007-9
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