Complete Genome Sequence of a New Member of the Marseilleviridae Recovered from the Brackish Submarine Spring in the Cassis Port-Miou Calanque, France
Author(s) -
Gabriel Doutre,
Bruno Arfib,
P. Rochette,
JeanMichel Claverie,
Patricia Bonin,
Chantal Abergel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
genome announcements
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2169-8287
DOI - 10.1128/genomea.01148-15
Subject(s) - biology , spring (device) , brackish water , port (circuit theory) , whole genome sequencing , genome , sequence (biology) , submarine , upstream (networking) , genetics , ecology , geography , gene , archaeology , telecommunications , engineering , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , salinity
Marseilleviridae is a rapidly expanding family of Acanthamoeba-infecting large DNA viruses distributed worldwide. We report here the complete 349-kbp genome sequence of Port-Miou virus, which is surprisingly close to that of Lausannevirus (isolated from the Seine River upstream from Paris, France), despite the strong dissimilarities of their sampling locations.
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