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Virome of Three Termite Species from Southern Vietnam
Modern metagenomic approaches enable the effective discovery of novel viruses in previously unexplored organisms. Termites are significant ecosystem converters and influencers. As with the majority of tropical forest insects, termites are studied insufficiently, and termite virome remains especially...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9143207/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35632601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14050860 |
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author | Litov, Alexander G. Zueva, Anna I. Tiunov, Alexei V. Van Thinh, Nguyen Belyaeva, Natalia V. Karganova, Galina G. |
author_facet | Litov, Alexander G. Zueva, Anna I. Tiunov, Alexei V. Van Thinh, Nguyen Belyaeva, Natalia V. Karganova, Galina G. |
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description | Modern metagenomic approaches enable the effective discovery of novel viruses in previously unexplored organisms. Termites are significant ecosystem converters and influencers. As with the majority of tropical forest insects, termites are studied insufficiently, and termite virome remains especially understudied. Here, we studied the virome of lichenophagous and mycophagous termites (Hospitalitermes bicolor, Macrotermes carbonarius and Odontotermes wallonensis) collected in the Cat Tien National Park (Vietnam). We assembled four full genomes of novel viruses related to Solemoviridae, Lispiviridae, Polycipiviridae and Kolmioviridae. We also found several contigs with relation to Chuviridae and Deltaflexiviridae that did not correspond to complete virus genomes. All the novel viruses clustered phylogenetically with previously identified viruses of the termites. Deltaflexi-like contigs were identified in the fungi-cultivating M. carbonarius and showed homology with viruses recently discovered in the edible basidiomycete mushrooms. |
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spelling | pubmed-91432072022-05-29 Virome of Three Termite Species from Southern Vietnam Litov, Alexander G. Zueva, Anna I. Tiunov, Alexei V. Van Thinh, Nguyen Belyaeva, Natalia V. Karganova, Galina G. Viruses Article Modern metagenomic approaches enable the effective discovery of novel viruses in previously unexplored organisms. Termites are significant ecosystem converters and influencers. As with the majority of tropical forest insects, termites are studied insufficiently, and termite virome remains especially understudied. Here, we studied the virome of lichenophagous and mycophagous termites (Hospitalitermes bicolor, Macrotermes carbonarius and Odontotermes wallonensis) collected in the Cat Tien National Park (Vietnam). We assembled four full genomes of novel viruses related to Solemoviridae, Lispiviridae, Polycipiviridae and Kolmioviridae. We also found several contigs with relation to Chuviridae and Deltaflexiviridae that did not correspond to complete virus genomes. All the novel viruses clustered phylogenetically with previously identified viruses of the termites. Deltaflexi-like contigs were identified in the fungi-cultivating M. carbonarius and showed homology with viruses recently discovered in the edible basidiomycete mushrooms. MDPI 2022-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9143207/ /pubmed/35632601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14050860 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Litov, Alexander G. Zueva, Anna I. Tiunov, Alexei V. Van Thinh, Nguyen Belyaeva, Natalia V. Karganova, Galina G. Virome of Three Termite Species from Southern Vietnam |
title | Virome of Three Termite Species from Southern Vietnam |
title_full | Virome of Three Termite Species from Southern Vietnam |
title_fullStr | Virome of Three Termite Species from Southern Vietnam |
title_full_unstemmed | Virome of Three Termite Species from Southern Vietnam |
title_short | Virome of Three Termite Species from Southern Vietnam |
title_sort | virome of three termite species from southern vietnam |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9143207/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35632601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14050860 |
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