Genome Assembly of Schlumbergera Virus X Infecting Prickly Pear (Opuntia cochenillifera) in Brazil

Márcio Martinello Sanches; Natalia Silva Lamas; Marcelo Banho A Reis; Juan Gabriel Arieta-Sosa; Eduardo Romano; Fernando Lucas Melo; Simone Graça Ribeiro

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00133-15

Genome Assembly of Schlumbergera Virus X Infecting Prickly Pear (Opuntia cochenillifera) in Brazil

Genome Announc. 2015 Mar 19;3(2):e00133-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00133-15.

Authors

Márcio Martinello Sanches¹, Natalia Silva Lamas¹, Marcelo Banho A Reis¹, Juan Gabriel Arieta-Sosa¹, Eduardo Romano¹, Fernando Lucas Melo², Simone Graça Ribeiro³

Affiliations

¹ Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasilia, Brazil.
² Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
³ Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasilia, Brazil simone.ribeiro@embrapa.br.

Abstract

Potexviruses frequently infect plants from the family Cactaceae. We report the complete genome sequence of a new Schlumbergera virus X (SchVX) isolate. The genome has 6,615 nucleotides and shares 94% nucleotide identity with SchVX-K11 from Schlumbergera. This is the first sequence of an isolate of SchVX from the genus Opuntia.