Draft Genome Sequence of Pandoravirus japonicus Isolated from the Sabaishi River, Niigata, Japan

Nao Hosokawa; Haruna Takahashi; Keita Aoki; Masaharu Takemura

doi:10.1128/MRA.00365-21

Draft Genome Sequence of Pandoravirus japonicus Isolated from the Sabaishi River, Niigata, Japan

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 May 13;10(19):e00365-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00365-21.

Authors

Nao Hosokawa^#¹, Haruna Takahashi^#², Keita Aoki², Masaharu Takemura^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Biology, Institute of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
² Laboratory of Biology, Graduate School of Mathematics and Science Education, Tokyo University of Science, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Laboratory of Biology, Institute of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan giantvirus@rs.tus.ac.jp.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

"Pandoraviridae" is a proposed family of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota Its features include an amphora-shaped capsid and the largest genome among all viruses. We report the isolation and genome sequencing of a new member of this family, named Pandoravirus japonicus, the third strain discovered in Japan.