Genome Sequences of Two Single-Stranded DNA Viruses Identified in Varroa destructor

Simona Kraberger; Gabriel A Visnovsky; Ron F van Toor; Maketalena F Male; Kara Waits; Rafaela S Fontenele; Arvind Varsani

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00107-18

Genome Sequences of Two Single-Stranded DNA Viruses Identified in Varroa destructor

Genome Announc. 2018 Mar 1;6(9):e00107-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00107-18.

Authors

Simona Kraberger¹, Gabriel A Visnovsky², Ron F van Toor³, Maketalena F Male^{4

5}, Kara Waits¹, Rafaela S Fontenele¹, Arvind Varsani^{6

4

7}

Affiliations

¹ The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
² Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Biomolecular Interaction Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand gabriel.visnovsky@canterbury.ac.nz arvind.varsani@asu.edu.
³ The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Christchurch, New Zealand.
⁴ School of Biological Sciences, Biomolecular Interaction Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
⁵ School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶ The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA gabriel.visnovsky@canterbury.ac.nz arvind.varsani@asu.edu.
⁷ Structural Biology Research Unit, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Abstract

Varroa destructor is a ubiquitous and parasitic mite of honey bees, infecting them with pathogenic viruses having a major impact on apiculture. We identified two novel circular replication-associated protein (Rep)-encoding single-stranded (CRESS) DNA viruses from V. destructor sampled from a honey bee hive near Christchurch in New Zealand.