Discovery of three RNA viruses using ant transcriptomic datasets.
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Publication Date
2019-02Journal Title
Arch Virol
ISSN
0304-8608
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
164
Issue
2
Pages
643-647
Language
eng
Type
Article
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VoR
Physical Medium
Print-Electronic
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Kleanthous, E., Olendraite, I., Lukhovitskaya, N., & Firth, A. (2019). Discovery of three RNA viruses using ant transcriptomic datasets.. Arch Virol, 164 (2), 643-647. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-018-4093-2
Abstract
Three novel RNA viruses, named Formica fusca virus 1 (GenBank accession no. MH477287), Lasius neglectus virus 2 (MH477288) and Myrmica scabrinodis virus 2 (MH477289), were discovered in ants collected in Cambridge, UK. The proposed virus names were given based on the hosts in which they were identified. The genome sequences were obtained using de novo transcriptome assembly of high-throughput RNA sequencing reads and confirmed by Sanger sequencing. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Formica fusca virus 1 grouped within the family Nyamiviridae, Lasius neglectus virus 2 grouped within the family Rhabdoviridae and Myrmica scabrinodis virus 2 belongs to the family Dicistroviridae. All three viruses are highly divergent from previously sequenced viruses.
Keywords
Animals, Ants, Insect Viruses, RNA Viruses, Viral Proteins, Phylogeny, Genome, Viral, Open Reading Frames, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Transcriptome
Sponsorship
This work was supported by Wellcome Trust grant [106207] and European Research Council grant [646891] to A.E.F.
Funder references
Wellcome Trust (106207/Z/14/Z)
European Research Council (646891)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-018-4093-2
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286411
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