A Narnavirus in the Trypanosomatid Protist Plant Pathogen Phytomonas serpens

Natalia S Akopyants; Lon-Fye Lye; Deborah E Dobson; Julius Lukeš; Stephen M Beverley

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00711-16

A Narnavirus in the Trypanosomatid Protist Plant Pathogen Phytomonas serpens

Genome Announc. 2016 Jul 28;4(4):e00711-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00711-16.

Authors

Natalia S Akopyants¹, Lon-Fye Lye¹, Deborah E Dobson¹, Julius Lukeš², Stephen M Beverley³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
² Biology Centre and Faculty of Sciences, Institute of Parasitology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA beverley@wusm.wustl.edu.

Abstract

We describe here a new RNA virus (PserNV1) from the plant protist parasite Phytomonas serpens (family Trypanosomatidae, Kinetoplastida, supergroup Excavata). The properties of PserNV1 permit assignment to the genus Narnavirus (Narnaviridae), the first reported from a host other than fungi or oomycetes.

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