Genome Sequences of Microviruses Associated with Coptotermes formosanus

Kara Schmidlin; Simona Kraberger; Rafaela S Fontenele; Francesca De Martini; Thomas Chouvenc; Gillian H Gile; Arvind Varsani

doi:10.1128/MRA.00185-19

Genome Sequences of Microviruses Associated with Coptotermes formosanus

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Apr 18;8(16):e00185-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00185-19.

Authors

Kara Schmidlin^{1

2}, Simona Kraberger¹, Rafaela S Fontenele^{1

2}, Francesca De Martini², Thomas Chouvenc³, Gillian H Gile^{1

2}, Arvind Varsani^{4

2

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
² School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
³ Department of Entomology and Nematology, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Davie, Florida, USA.
⁴ The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA arvind.varsani@asu.edu.
⁵ Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
⁶ Structural Biology Research Unit, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.

Abstract

Termites have a unique ability to effectively digest lignocellulose with the help of mutualistic symbionts. While gut bacteria and protozoa have been relatively well characterized in termites, the virome remains largely unexplored. Here, we report two genomes of microviruses (termite-associated microvirus-1 [TaMV-1] and termite-associated microvirus-2 [TaMV-2]) associated with the gut of Coptotermes formosanus.