Characterization of Iflavirus in the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera; Tenebrionidae).

ABSTRACT: Iflavirus is a group of viruses distributed mainly in arthropod species. We surveyed Tribolium castaneum iflavirus (TcIV) in different laboratory strains and in Sequence Read Archives (SRA) in GenBank. TcIV is highly specific to only T. castaneum and is not found in seven other Tenebrionid species, including the closely related species T. freemani. The same strains from different laboratories and different strains displayed largely different degrees of infections in the examination of 50 different lines by using Taqman-based quantitative PCR. We found that ~63% (27 out of 43 strains) of T. castaneum strains in different laboratories are positive for TcIV PCR with large degrees of variation, in the range of seven orders of magnitude, indicati

SUBMITTER: Fatehi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10051554 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature