Draft Genome Sequence of Medusavirus Stheno, Isolated from the Tatakai River of Uji, Japan

Koki Yoshida; Ruixuan Zhang; Kimberly G Garcia; Hisashi Endo; Yasuhiro Gotoh; Tetsuya Hayashi; Masaharu Takemura; Hiroyuki Ogata

doi:10.1128/MRA.01323-20

Draft Genome Sequence of Medusavirus Stheno, Isolated from the Tatakai River of Uji, Japan

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Jan 7;10(1):e01323-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01323-20.

Authors

Koki Yoshida^#¹, Ruixuan Zhang^#¹, Kimberly G Garcia¹, Hisashi Endo¹, Yasuhiro Gotoh², Tetsuya Hayashi², Masaharu Takemura³, Hiroyuki Ogata⁴

Affiliations

¹ Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Japan.
² Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.
³ Laboratory of Biology, Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Japan ogata@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

"Medusaviridae" is a proposed family of large double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses so far represented by a sole virus isolated from a hot spring. In the present study, we report the isolation and genome sequencing of a second member of this family, medusavirus stheno, discovered from a freshwater sample with an Acanthamoeba castellanii coculture.