Diabrotica undecimpunctata virus 2, a Novel Small RNA Virus Discovered from 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.00380-20

Diabrotica undecimpunctata virus 2, a Novel Small RNA Virus Discovered from Southern Corn Rootworm, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jun 25;9(26):e00380-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00380-20.

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 of Diabrotica undecimpunctata virus 2 (DuV2), a putative positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus identified from the southern corn rootworm transcriptome, comprises 5,313 nucleotides, including a short poly(A) tail. The two open reading frames encode a nonstructural polyprotein (p156) and a putative capsid protein (p25).