Meta-Transcriptomic Identification of Divergent Amnoonviridae in Fish.

ABSTRACT: Tilapia lake virus (TiLV) has caused mass mortalities in farmed and wild tilapia with serious economic and ecological consequences. Until recently, this virus was the sole member of the Amnoonviridae, a family within the order Articulavirales comprising segmented negative-sense RNA viruses. We sought to identify additional viruses within the Amnoonviridae through total RNA sequencing (meta-transcriptomics) and data mining of published transcriptomes. Accordingly, we sampled marine fish species from both Australia and China and discovered several segments of two new viruses within the Amnoonviridae, tentatively called Flavolineata virus and Piscibus virus, respectively. In addition, by mining vertebrate transcriptome data, we identified nine additio

SUBMITTER: Turnbull OMH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7694244 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature