We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Discovery of two novel totiviruses from Culex tritaeniorhynchus classifiable in a distinct clade with arthropod-infecting viruses within the family Totiviridae.
- Authors
Huang, Yong; Guo, Xiaofang; Zhang, Shuyan; Zhao, Qiumin; Sun, Qiang; Zhou, Hongnin; Zhang, Jiusong; Tong, Yigang
- Abstract
Two double-stranded RNA viruses, named Culex tritaeniorhynchus totivirus NJ2 (CTV_NJ2) and NJ3 (CTV_NJ3), were discovered from wild-captured Culex tritaeniorhynchus mosquitoes. The complete genomes (7,624 and 7,612 bp in length) were obtained using RNA sequencing. Both CTV_NJ2 and CTV_NJ3 encode a putative capsid protein and an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. The most similar strain to CTV_NJ2/3 is Omono River virus strain AK4 (ORV-AK4). The CP and RdRp identities of AK4 are different to CTV_NJ2 (84% and 87%) and CTV_NJ3 (47% and 62%). Phylogenetic analysis showed that taxonomically speaking CTV_NJ2/3 grouped within the unclassified Totiviridae and formed a distinct clade with other arthropod-infecting viruses.
- Subjects
CULEX; TOTIVIRIDAE; NUCLEOTIDE sequence; RNA polymerases; RNA viruses
- Publication
Archives of Virology, 2018, Vol 163, Issue 10, p2899
- ISSN
0304-8608
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00705-018-3871-1