Genome Sequence of a Novel Picorna-Like RNA Virus from Feces of the Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella)

Andi Krumbholz; Marco Groth; Jan Esefeld; Hans-Ulrich Peter; Roland Zell

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01001-17

Genome Sequence of a Novel Picorna-Like RNA Virus from Feces of the Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella)

Genome Announc. 2017 Sep 7;5(36):e01001-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01001-17.

Authors

Andi Krumbholz¹, Marco Groth², Jan Esefeld³, Hans-Ulrich Peter³, Roland Zell⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institut für Infektionsmedizin der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel und des Universitätsklinikums Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
² CF DNA-Sequenzierung, Leibniz Institut für Alternsforschung, Fritz Lipmann Institut, Jena, Germany.
³ AG Polar- und Ornitho-Ökologie, Institut für Ökologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.
⁴ Sektion Experimentelle Virologie, Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany roland.zell@med.uni-jena.de.

Abstract

A novel RNA virus was detected in a fecal sample collected from the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) in King George Island, Antarctica. The almost-complete genome sequence reveals two open reading frames and a dicistrovirus-like gene order.