Complete Genome Sequence of a Rhabdovirus Strain from Culex Mosquitos Collected in Southern Switzerland

Jakub Kubacki; Isabelle Hardmeier; Weihong Qi; Eleonora Flacio; Mauro Tonolla; Cornel Fraefel

doi:10.1128/MRA.01234-20

Complete Genome Sequence of a Rhabdovirus Strain from Culex Mosquitos Collected in Southern Switzerland

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Jan 7;10(1):e01234-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01234-20.

Authors

Jakub Kubacki¹, Isabelle Hardmeier², Weihong Qi³, Eleonora Flacio⁴, Mauro Tonolla⁴, Cornel Fraefel¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland jakub.kubacki@uzh.ch cornel.fraefel@uzh.ch.
² Institute of Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Functional Genomics Center Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁴ Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Manno, Switzerland.

Abstract

We report here the full-length genome sequence of a rhabdovirus strain detected in a pool of 21 Culex pipiens and Culex torrentium mosquitos collected in southern Switzerland. The genome has a length of 11,914 nucleotides and encodes five major putative open reading frames.