Full genome characterization of the culicoides-borne marsupial orbiviruses: Wallal virus, Mudjinbarry virus and Warrego viruses

Viruses belonging to the species Wallal virus and Warrego virus of the genus Orbivirus were identified as causative agents of blindness in marsupials in Australia during 1994/5. Recent comparisons of nucleotide (nt) and amino acid (aa) sequences have provided a basis for the grouping and classificat...

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Published in:PloS one 2014-10, Vol.9 (10), p.e108379-e108379
Main Authors: Belaganahalli, Manjunatha N, Maan, Sushila, Maan, Narender S, Pritchard, Ian, Kirkland, Peter D, Brownlie, Joe, Attoui, Houssam, Mertens, Peter P C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amino Acid Sequence
Amino acids
Animal sciences
Animals
Base Sequence
Biology and Life Sciences
Blindness
Capsid protein
Ceratopogonidae - virology
Classification
Cloning
Clustering
Culicidae
Culicoides
Disease
Genome, Viral - genetics
Genomes
Life Sciences
Macropodidae
Macropus
Marsupialia - virology
Marsupials
Molecular Sequence Data
Mosquitoes
Nucleotide sequence
Orbivirus - genetics
Phylogeny
Proteins
Reoviridae
Rivers
Sequence Analysis - methods
Serotypes
Species
Taxonomy
Vectors (Biology)
Viral Structural Proteins - genetics
Virology
Viruses
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Summary:Viruses belonging to the species Wallal virus and Warrego virus of the genus Orbivirus were identified as causative agents of blindness in marsupials in Australia during 1994/5. Recent comparisons of nucleotide (nt) and amino acid (aa) sequences have provided a basis for the grouping and classification of orbivirus isolates. However, full-genome sequence data are not available for representatives of all Orbivirus species. We report full-genome sequence data for three additional orbiviruses: Wallal virus (WALV); Mudjinabarry virus (MUDV) and Warrego virus (WARV). Comparisons of conserved polymerase (Pol), sub-core-shell 'T2' and core-surface 'T13' proteins show that these viruses group with other Culicoides borne orbiviruses, clustering with Eubenangee virus (EUBV), another orbivirus infecting marsupials. WARV shares
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0108379