First Description of Loreto Virus in Three Culicidae Species from the Atlantic Forest, Bahia, Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Loreto virus (LORV) is an insect-specific virus classified into the proposed taxon Negevirus. It was originally described in Iquitos, Peru, in 1977. Here, we describe three novel LORV genomes obtained from the isolates of three pooled samples of Trichoprosopon digitatum, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) fulvus, and Limatus durhamii collected in Ilhéus-Bahia, 2014. Samples were submitted to RNA sequencing on the Illumina platform to recover the LORV genome. The genomes presented, on average, 81.5% nucleotide identity and 92.6% global amino acid identity with the LORV reference genome (NC_034158). Subsequently, phylogenetic analysis was performed based on a multiple sequence alignment of the concatenated amino acid sequences predicted for the three ORFs of the Negeviru

SUBMITTER: da Paz TYB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11598848 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature