Discovery and molecular characterization of an ambisense densovirus from South American populations of Solenopsis invicta

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_B4B81D06355F
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
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Publications
Institution
Titre
Discovery and molecular characterization of an ambisense densovirus from South American populations of Solenopsis invicta
Périodique
Biological Control
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Valles S.M., Shoemaker D., Wuem Y., Strong C.A., Varone L., Becnel J.J., Shirk P.D.
ISSN
1049-9644
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2013
Volume
67
Numéro
3
Pages
431-439
Langue
anglais
Résumé
In an effort to discover viruses as classical biological control agents, a metatranscriptomics/pyrosequencing approach was used to survey native Solenopsis invicta collected exclusively in Argentina. A new virus was discovered with characteristics consistent with the family Parvoviridae, subfamily Densovirinae. The virus, tentatively named Solenopsis invicta densovirus (SiDNV), represents the first DNA virus discovered in ants (Formicidae) and the first densovirus in a hymenopteran insect. The ambisense genome was 5280 nucleotides in length and the termini possessed asymmetrically positioned inverted terminal repeats, formed hairpin loops, and had transcriptional regulatory elements including CAAT and TATA sites. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that SiDNV belongs to a group that includes two other densoviruses found in insects (Acheta domestica densovirus and Planococcus citri densovirus). SiDNV was prevalent in fire ants from Argentina but completely absent in fire ants found in the USA indicating that this virus has potential for biological control of introduced S. invicta.
Mots-clé
Invasive species, Solenopsis invicta, Densovirus, DNA virus, Genome sequence
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06/01/2014 10:08
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20/08/2019 15:23
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