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- Title
Virome of Three Termite Species from Southern Vietnam.
- Authors
Litov, Alexander G.; Zueva, Anna I.; Tiunov, Alexei V.; Van Thinh, Nguyen; Belyaeva, Natalia V.; Karganova, Galina G.
- Abstract
Modern metagenomic approaches enable the effective discovery of novel viruses in previously unexplored organisms. Termites are significant ecosystem converters and influencers. As with the majority of tropical forest insects, termites are studied insufficiently, and termite virome remains especially understudied. Here, we studied the virome of lichenophagous and mycophagous termites (Hospitalitermes bicolor, Macrotermes carbonarius and Odontotermes wallonensis) collected in the Cat Tien National Park (Vietnam). We assembled four full genomes of novel viruses related to Solemoviridae, Lispiviridae, Polycipiviridae and Kolmioviridae. We also found several contigs with relation to Chuviridae and Deltaflexiviridae that did not correspond to complete virus genomes. All the novel viruses clustered phylogenetically with previously identified viruses of the termites. Deltaflexi-like contigs were identified in the fungi-cultivating M. carbonarius and showed homology with viruses recently discovered in the edible basidiomycete mushrooms.
- Subjects
VIETNAM; FOREST insects; VIRAL genomes; TROPICAL forests; SPECIES; INSECT societies
- Publication
Viruses (1999-4915), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 5, p860
- ISSN
1999-4915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/v14050860