A Novel Bunyavirus-Like Virus of Trypanosomatid Protist Parasites

Natalia S Akopyants; Lon-Fye Lye; Deborah E Dobson; Julius Lukeš; Stephen M Beverley

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00715-16

A Novel Bunyavirus-Like Virus of Trypanosomatid Protist Parasites

Genome Announc. 2016 Aug 4;4(4):e00715-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00715-16.

Authors

Natalia S Akopyants¹, Lon-Fye Lye¹, Deborah E Dobson¹, Julius Lukeš², Stephen M Beverley³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
² Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, and Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Ĉeské Budějovice, Czech Republic Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA beverley@wusm.wustl.edu.

Abstract

We report here the sequences for all three segments of a novel RNA virus (LepmorLBV1) from the insect trypanosomatid parasite Leptomonas moramango This virus belongs to a newly discovered group of bunyavirus-like elements termed Leishbunyaviruses (LBV), the first discovered from protists related to arboviruses infecting humans.

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