First Complete Genome Sequence of Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus Isolated from Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) in China

Beibei Li; Chunsheng Hou; Shuai Deng; Xuefeng Zhang; Yanna Chu; Chunying Yuan; Qingyun Diao

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00618-16

First Complete Genome Sequence of Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus Isolated from Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) in China

Genome Announc. 2016 Aug 4;4(4):e00618-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00618-16.

Authors

Beibei Li¹, Chunsheng Hou², Shuai Deng³, Xuefeng Zhang⁴, Yanna Chu³, Chunying Yuan⁵, Qingyun Diao²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, People's Republic of China Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
² Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, People's Republic of China houchunsheng@caas.cn dqyun1@126.com.
³ Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
⁴ Guangdong Entomological Institute, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
⁵ The Original Bee Breeding Farm of Liaoning Province, Xingcheng, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

Chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV) is a serious viral disease affecting adult bees. We report here the complete genome sequence of CBPV, which was isolated from a honey bee colony with the symptom of severe crawling. The genome of CBPV consists of two segments, RNA 1 and RNA 2, containing respective overlapping fragments.