Genome Sequence of a Gammaherpesvirus from a Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Andrew J Davison; Kuttichantran Subramaniam; Karen Kerr; Jessica M Jacob; Nelmarie Landrau-Giovannetti; Michael T Walsh; Randall S Wells; Thomas B Waltzek

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00777-17

Genome Sequence of a Gammaherpesvirus from a Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 3;5(31):e00777-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00777-17.

Authors

Andrew J Davison¹, Kuttichantran Subramaniam², Karen Kerr¹, Jessica M Jacob², Nelmarie Landrau-Giovannetti², Michael T Walsh³, Randall S Wells^{3

4}, Thomas B Waltzek⁵

Affiliations

¹ MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
² Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
³ Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁴ Chicago Zoological Society's Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, c/o Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida, USA.
⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA tbwaltzek@ufl.edu.

Abstract

A herpesvirus genome was sequenced directly from a biopsy specimen of a rectal lesion from a female common bottlenose dolphin. This genome sequence comprises a unique region (161,235 bp) flanked by multiple copies of a terminal repeat (4,431 bp) and contains 72 putative genes. The virus was named common bottlenose dolphin gammaherpesvirus 1.

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