Genome Sequences of Poaceae-Associated Gemycircularviruses from the Pacific Ocean Island of Tonga

Maketalena F Male; Viliami Kami; Simona Kraberger; Arvind Varsani

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01144-15

Genome Sequences of Poaceae-Associated Gemycircularviruses from the Pacific Ocean Island of Tonga

Genome Announc. 2015 Oct 15;3(5):e01144-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01144-15.

Authors

Maketalena F Male¹, Viliami Kami², Simona Kraberger¹, Arvind Varsani³

Affiliations

¹ Biomolecular Interaction Centre and School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
² Vuna Road, Nuku'Alofa, Tonga.
³ Biomolecular Interaction Centre and School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Structural Biology Research Unit, Division of Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa Department of Plant Pathology and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA arvind.varsani@canterbury.ac.nz.

Abstract

We sampled and analyzed 43 Poaceae plants from the Pacific Ocean island of Tonga for the presence of circular DNA viruses. From these samples, we recovered three gemycircularvirus genomes, which share >99% identity, from Brachiaria deflexa (n = 2) and sugarcane (n = 1). These genomes share <61% genome-wide identity with other gemycircularvirus sequences in public databases.