Draft Genome Sequence of White Spot Syndrome Virus Isolated from Cultured Litopenaeus vannamei in Mexico

Libia Zulema Rodriguez-Anaya; Jose Reyes Gonzalez-Galaviz; Ramón Casillas-Hernandez; Fernando Lares-Villa; Karel Estrada; Jose Cuauhtemoc Ibarra-Gamez; Alejandro Sanchez-Flores

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01674-15

Draft Genome Sequence of White Spot Syndrome Virus Isolated from Cultured Litopenaeus vannamei in Mexico

Genome Announc. 2016 Mar 10;4(2):e01674-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01674-15.

Authors

Libia Zulema Rodriguez-Anaya¹, Jose Reyes Gonzalez-Galaviz¹, Ramón Casillas-Hernandez¹, Fernando Lares-Villa¹, Karel Estrada², Jose Cuauhtemoc Ibarra-Gamez³, Alejandro Sanchez-Flores⁴

Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Ciencias Agronómicas y Veterinarias, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico.
² Unidad de Secuenciación Masiva y Bioinformática, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
³ Departamento de Ciencias Agronómicas y Veterinarias, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico jose.ibarra@itson.edu.mx alexsf@ibt.unam.mx.
⁴ Unidad de Secuenciación Masiva y Bioinformática, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico jose.ibarra@itson.edu.mx alexsf@ibt.unam.mx.

Abstract

The first genome sequence of a Mexican white spot syndrome virus is presented here. White spot syndrome is a shrimp pandemic virus that has devastated production in Mexico for more than 10 years. The availability of this genome will greatly aid epidemiological studies worldwide, contributing to the molecular diagnostic and disease prevention in shrimp farming.

Grants and funding

L.Z. Rodriguez-Anaya was supported by a CONACyT PhD scholarship. Laboratorio Nacional de Apoyo Tecnológico a las Ciencias Genomicas was supported by a CONACyT 260481 grant.