Six Nearly Complete Genome Segments of a Novel Reovirus Identified in Laotian Batflies

Sarah Temmam; Khamsing Vongphayloth; Jeffrey C Hertz; Ian Sutherland; Bounsavane Douangboubpha; Marc Grandadam; Thomas Bigot; Paul T Brey; Marc Eloit

doi:10.1128/MRA.00733-19

Six Nearly Complete Genome Segments of a Novel Reovirus Identified in Laotian Batflies

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Nov 14;8(46):e00733-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00733-19.

Authors

Sarah Temmam¹, Khamsing Vongphayloth², Jeffrey C Hertz³, Ian Sutherland^{3

4}, Bounsavane Douangboubpha⁵, Marc Grandadam⁶, Thomas Bigot^{1

7}, Paul T Brey⁸, Marc Eloit^{9

10}

Affiliations

¹ Institut Pasteur, Biology of Infection Unit, Inserm U1117, Pathogen Discovery Laboratory, Paris, France.
² Laboratory of Vector Borne Diseases, Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic.
³ United States Naval Medical Research Unit Two, Singapore.
⁴ United States Navy Entomology Center of Excellence, NAS Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
⁵ Faculty of Environmental Science, Lao National University, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic.
⁶ Arbovirology and Emerging Virus Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic.
⁷ Institut Pasteur-Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub-Computational Biology Department, Institut Pasteur, USR 3756 CNRS, Paris, France.
⁸ Laboratory of Vector Borne Diseases, Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic ptb1957@yahoo.com marc.eloit@pasteur.fr.
⁹ Institut Pasteur, Biology of Infection Unit, Inserm U1117, Pathogen Discovery Laboratory, Paris, France ptb1957@yahoo.com marc.eloit@pasteur.fr.
¹⁰ National Veterinary School of Alfort, Paris-Est University, Maisons-Alfort, France.

Abstract

As part of the characterization of viral communities of Laotian batflies, we report here the sequencing of six nearly complete genome segments of a novel reovirus identified in Laotian batflies that is distantly related to reoviruses recently reported in various Diptera species.