A Narnavirus-Like Element from the Trypanosomatid Protozoan Parasite Leptomonas seymouri

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

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00713-16

A Narnavirus-Like Element from the Trypanosomatid Protozoan Parasite Leptomonas seymouri

Genome Announc. 2016 Aug 4;4(4):e00713-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00713-16.

Authors

Lon-Fye Lye¹, Natalia S Akopyants¹, Deborah E Dobson¹, Stephen M Beverley²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
² Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA beverley@wusm.wustl.edu.

Abstract

Genome sequences were determined for a novel RNA virus, Leptomonas seymouri Narna-like virus 1 (LepseyNLV1). A 2.9-kb segment encodes an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), while a smaller 1.5-kb segment showed no database search matches. This is the first report of bisegmented Narnaviridae from insect trypanosomatids.

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