TY - JOUR
T1 - Arboretum and Puerto Almendras viruses
T2 - Two novel rhabdoviruses isolated from mosquitoes in Peru
AU - Vasilakis, Nikos
AU - Castro-Llanos, Fanny
AU - Widen, Steven G.
AU - Aguilar, Patricia V.
AU - Guzman, Hilda
AU - Guevara, Carolina
AU - Fernandez, Roberto
AU - Auguste, Albert J.
AU - Wood, Thomas G.
AU - Popov, Vsevolod
AU - Mundal, Kirk
AU - Ghedin, Elodie
AU - Kochel, Tadeusz J.
AU - Holmes, Edward C.
AU - Walker, Peter J.
AU - Tesh, Robert B.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Arboretum virus (ABTV) and Puerto Almendras virus (PTAMV) are two mosquito-associated rhabdoviruses isolated from pools of Psorophora albigenu and Ochlerotattus fulvus mosquitoes, respectively, collected in the Department of Loreto, Peru, in 2009. Initial tests suggested that both viruses were novel rhabdoviruses and this was confirmed by complete genome sequencing. Analysis of their 11 482 nt (ABTV) and 11 876 (PTAMV) genomes indicates that they encode the five canonical rhabdovirus structural proteins (N, P, M, G and L) with an additional gene (U1) encoding a small hydrophobic protein. Evolutionary analysis of the L protein indicates that ABTV and PTAMV are novel and phylogenetically distinct rhabdoviruses that cannot be classified as members of any of the eight currently recognized genera within the family Rhabdoviridae, highlighting the vast diversity of this virus family.
AB - Arboretum virus (ABTV) and Puerto Almendras virus (PTAMV) are two mosquito-associated rhabdoviruses isolated from pools of Psorophora albigenu and Ochlerotattus fulvus mosquitoes, respectively, collected in the Department of Loreto, Peru, in 2009. Initial tests suggested that both viruses were novel rhabdoviruses and this was confirmed by complete genome sequencing. Analysis of their 11 482 nt (ABTV) and 11 876 (PTAMV) genomes indicates that they encode the five canonical rhabdovirus structural proteins (N, P, M, G and L) with an additional gene (U1) encoding a small hydrophobic protein. Evolutionary analysis of the L protein indicates that ABTV and PTAMV are novel and phylogenetically distinct rhabdoviruses that cannot be classified as members of any of the eight currently recognized genera within the family Rhabdoviridae, highlighting the vast diversity of this virus family.
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U2 - 10.1099/vir.0.058685-0
DO - 10.1099/vir.0.058685-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 24421116
AN - SCOPUS:84897056237
SN - 0022-1317
VL - 95
SP - 787
EP - 792
JO - Journal of General Virology
JF - Journal of General Virology
IS - PART 4
ER -