Terminal Genome Sequences of the Soft Tick Bunyavirus

Satoko Sugimoto; Yuto Suda; Tomoki Yoshikawa; Takeshi Kurosu; Tetsuya Mizutani; Masayuki Saijo; Masayuki Shimojima

doi:10.1128/MRA.00126-20

Terminal Genome Sequences of the Soft Tick Bunyavirus

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Apr 30;9(18):e00126-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00126-20.

Authors

Satoko Sugimoto^#^{1

2}, Yuto Suda^#^{3

2}, Tomoki Yoshikawa^#², Takeshi Kurosu², Tetsuya Mizutani¹, Masayuki Saijo², Masayuki Shimojima⁴

Affiliations

¹ Cooperative Division of Veterinary Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Virology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Department of Virology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan shimoji-@nih.go.jp.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

The complete genome sequence of the soft tick bunyavirus (STBV) was obtained using the Sanger sequencing technique. Comparison with other viral sequences revealed that STBV has unique sequences in the terminal regions that are highly conserved among the genus Orthonairovirus.