First Complete Genome Sequences of Two Keystone Viruses from Florida

Timothy B Stockwell; Lea A Heberlein-Larson; Yi Tan; Rebecca A Halpin; Nadia Fedorova; Daniel A Katzel; Sandra Smole; Thomas R Unnasch; Laura D Kramer; Suman R Das

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01255-15

First Complete Genome Sequences of Two Keystone Viruses from Florida

Genome Announc. 2015 Oct 29;3(5):e01255-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01255-15.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
² Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Tampa, Florida, USA.
³ Department of Public Health, Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Department of Global Health, Global Health Infectious Disease Research Program, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
⁵ Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Slingerlands, New York, USA School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, USA.
⁶ J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA sdas@jcvi.org.

Abstract

We report here the first complete sequences of two Keystone virus (KEYV) genomes isolated from Florida in 2005, which include the first two publicly available complete large (L) gene sequences. The sequences of the KEYV L segments show 75.99 to 83.86% nucleotide similarity with those of other viruses in the California (CAL) serogroup of bunyaviruses.

Grants and funding

U19 AI110819/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States