Genome Sequence of a Novel Iflavirus from mRNA Sequencing of the Pupa of Bombyx mori Inoculated with Cordyceps militaris

Tomohiro Suzuki; Yoshino Takeshima; Toshiyuki Mikamoto; Jun-David Saeki; Tatsuya Kato; Enoch Y Park; Hirokazu Kawagishi; Hideo Dohra

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01039-15

Genome Sequence of a Novel Iflavirus from mRNA Sequencing of the Pupa of Bombyx mori Inoculated with Cordyceps militaris

Genome Announc. 2015 Sep 17;3(5):e01039-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01039-15.

Authors

Tomohiro Suzuki¹, Yoshino Takeshima², Toshiyuki Mikamoto³, Jun-David Saeki³, Tatsuya Kato⁴, Enoch Y Park⁴, Hirokazu Kawagishi⁵, Hideo Dohra⁶

Affiliations

¹ Center for Bioscience Research and Education, Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan.
² Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan.
³ Nichihara Research & Development Laboratories, Inc., Tsuwano, Kanoashi, Shimane, Japan.
⁴ Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan.
⁵ Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan kawagishi.hirokazu@shizuoka.ac.jp dora.hideo@shizuoka.ac.jp.
⁶ Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, Japan kawagishi.hirokazu@shizuoka.ac.jp dora.hideo@shizuoka.ac.jp.

Abstract

We discovered a novel iflavirus from the transcriptome of the Bombyx mori pupa inoculated with the insect-pathogenic fungus Cordyceps militaris. The assembled iflavirus genome has 10,119 nucleotides, with a 3'-polyadenylated tail, and it encodes a polyprotein composed of 3,004 amino acids.