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A new member of the family Totiviridae associated with arboreal ants (Camponotus nipponicus)
- Source :
- Archives of Virology. 161:2043-2045
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- A putative new member of the family Totiviridae was identified in arboreal ants (Camponotus nipponicus). The viral dsRNA consisted of 5,713 nt with two overlapping open reading frames (ORFs). ORF1 encodes a putative capsid protein. ORF2 encodes a viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). ORF2 could be translated as a fusion protein with the ORF1 product through a -1 frameshift in the overlapping ORF1. Phylogenetic analysis based on the RdRp revealed that the virus from C. nipponicus is closely related to Camponotus yamaokai virus, a member of the family Totiviridae, from another ant species. The name Camponotus nipponicus virus (CNV) is proposed for the new virus.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
viruses
030106 microbiology
Genome, Viral
Biology
Ribosomal frameshift
Virus
Frameshift mutation
Open Reading Frames
Viral Proteins
03 medical and health sciences
Virology
Animals
ORFS
Phylogeny
Totiviridae
Phylogenetic tree
Ants
General Medicine
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
biology.organism_classification
Open reading frame
030104 developmental biology
Capsid
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14328798 and 03048608
- Volume :
- 161
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of Virology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7353d57fe6851a29d3e673e118049e95