Genome Sequences of Barmah Forest Virus Strains Isolated from Mosquitoes Trapped in Australian Defence Force Training Areas Reveal Multiple Nucleotide Insertions in the 3' Untranslated Region

Wenjun Liu; Joanne R Kizu; Christina Hoare; Ian R Mitchell; Penelope J Gauci; Aneta J Gubala

doi:10.1128/MRA.00969-19

Genome Sequences of Barmah Forest Virus Strains Isolated from Mosquitoes Trapped in Australian Defence Force Training Areas Reveal Multiple Nucleotide Insertions in the 3' Untranslated Region

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 10;8(41):e00969-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00969-19.

Authors

Wenjun Liu¹, Joanne R Kizu², Christina Hoare², Ian R Mitchell³, Penelope J Gauci³, Aneta J Gubala³

Affiliations

¹ Arbovirology Department, Australian Defence Force Malaria and Infectious Disease Institute, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia Wenjun.liu@defence.gov.au.
² Arbovirology Department, Australian Defence Force Malaria and Infectious Disease Institute, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia.
³ Land Division, Defence Science and Technology Group, Fishermans Bend, Victoria, Australia.

Abstract

The complete genome sequences of two Barmah Forest virus (BFV) strains isolated from mosquitoes trapped in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) training areas during 2017 and 2018 reveal multiple nucleotide insertions in the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of ADF BFV strains compared with the BFV prototype strain whole-genome sequence in GenBank.