Complete Genome Sequence of a Newcastle Disease Virus from a Coturnix coturnix japonica (Japanese Quail) Covey in India

Srinivasan Bhuvaneswari; Krishnaswamy Gopalan Tirumurugaan; Jagaraj Cyril Jones; Kathaperumal Kumanan

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00374-14

Complete Genome Sequence of a Newcastle Disease Virus from a Coturnix coturnix japonica (Japanese Quail) Covey in India

Genome Announc. 2014 May 15;2(3):e00374-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00374-14.

Authors

Srinivasan Bhuvaneswari¹, Krishnaswamy Gopalan Tirumurugaan¹, Jagaraj Cyril Jones¹, Kathaperumal Kumanan²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Animal Biotechnology, ICAR-Niche Area of Excellence, Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
² kumananrani@hotmail.com.

Abstract

The genome of a Newcastle disease virus isolated from a Japanese quail in 2003 is reported here. The genome is 15,192 nucleotides (nt) long, as found in the recent genotypes, and grouped as genotype VIIb, with a 6-nt insertion. This is the first report on the sequence of a genotype VII Newcastle disease virus (NDV) from India.