Near-Complete Sequence of a Highly Divergent Reovirus Genome Recovered from Callinectes sapidus

Mingli Zhao; Emily M Flowers; Eric J Schott

doi:10.1128/MRA.01278-20

Near-Complete Sequence of a Highly Divergent Reovirus Genome Recovered from Callinectes sapidus

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Jan 7;10(1):e01278-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01278-20.

Authors

Mingli Zhao¹, Emily M Flowers², Eric J Schott³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, USA schott@umces.edu.

Abstract

This report describes the sequence of a reovirus genome, discovered in Callinectes sapidus in Brazil. The genome sequence of Callinectes sapidus reovirus 2 (CsRV2) consists of 12 segments that encode 13 putative proteins. The predicted RNA-dependent RNA polymerase is highly similar to that of Eriocheir sinensis reovirus 905, suggesting that CsRV2 also belongs to the genus Cardoreovirus.