Genome Sequence of a Small RNA Virus of the Southern Corn Rootworm, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Sijun Liu; Arnubio Valencia-Jiménez; Molly Darlington; Ana M Vélez; Bryony C Bonning

doi:10.1128/MRA.00379-20

Genome Sequence of a Small RNA Virus of the Southern Corn Rootworm, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jun 25;9(26):e00379-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00379-20.

Authors

Sijun Liu¹, Arnubio Valencia-Jiménez^{2

3}, Molly Darlington³, Ana M Vélez³, Bryony C Bonning⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
² Departamento de Producción Agropecuaria, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia.
³ Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
⁴ Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA bbonning@ufl.edu.

Abstract

The genome sequence of a novel small RNA virus, tentatively named Diabrotica undecimpunctata virus 1 (DuV1), was discovered from the transcriptome of the southern corn rootworm, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber. DuV1 has a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genome that encodes a single polyprotein of 3,401 amino acids with limited similarity to other viruses.