Complete Genome Sequence of the Strain of Lymantria dispar Multiple Nucleopolyhedrovirus Found in the Gypsy Moth Biopesticide Virin-ENSh

Robert L Harrison; Daniel L Rowley

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01407-14

Complete Genome Sequence of the Strain of Lymantria dispar Multiple Nucleopolyhedrovirus Found in the Gypsy Moth Biopesticide Virin-ENSh

Genome Announc. 2015 Jan 15;3(1):e01407-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01407-14.

Authors

Robert L Harrison¹, Daniel L Rowley²

Affiliations

¹ U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, USA robert.l.harrison@ars.usda.gov.
² U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

We report the genome sequence of an alphabaculovirus from the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) biopesticide Virin-ENSh. The genome sequence is 161,712 bp, and its structure and sequence similarity indicate that the virus used in Virin-ENSh is a strain of the species Lymantria dispar multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus.