Genomovirus Genomes Recovered from Echinothrips americanus Sampled in Florida, USA

Simona Kraberger; Jane E Polston; Heather M Capobianco; Ricardo I Alcalá-Briseño; Rafaela S Fontenele; Arvind Varsani

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00445-17

Genomovirus Genomes Recovered from Echinothrips americanus Sampled in Florida, USA

Genome Announc. 2017 May 25;5(21):e00445-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00445-17.

Authors

Simona Kraberger¹, Jane E Polston², Heather M Capobianco², Ricardo I Alcalá-Briseño², Rafaela S Fontenele¹, Arvind Varsani^{3

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Affiliations

¹ The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
² Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
³ The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA Arvind.varsani@asu.edu.
⁴ Structural Biology Research Unit, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.

Abstract

Four genomovirus genomes were recovered from thrips (Echinothrips americanus) collected in Florida, USA. These represent four new species which are members of the Gemycircularvirus (n = 2), Gemyduguivirus (n = 1), and Gemykibivirus (n = 1) genera. This is the first record, to our knowledge, of genomoviruses associated with a phytophagous insect.