Whole-genome assembly of a novel invertebrate herpesvirus from the gastropod Babylonia areolata.

ABSTRACT: Molluscan herpesviruses cause disease in species of major importance to aquaculture and are the only known herpesviruses to infect invertebrates, which lack an adaptive immune system. Understanding the evolution of malacoherpesviruses in relation to their hosts will likely require comparative genomic studies on multiple phylogenetic scales. Currently, only two malacoherpesvirus species have genomes that have been fully assembled, which limits the ability to perform comparative genomic studies on this family of viruses. In the present study, we fully assemble a herpesvirus from Illumina and Nanopore sequence data that were previously used to assemble the genome of the gastropod Babylonia areolata. We tentatively assign this novel herpesvirus to the genus Aurivirus within the f

SUBMITTER: Divilov K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11092209 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature