Iteradensovirus from the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus plexippus.

Qian Yu (1) , Peter Tijssen (1)

1 INRS-IAF - Institut Armand Frappier

The 5,006-nucleotide (nt)-long genome of a new virus from monarch butterfly pupae was cloned and sequenced. It was flanked by inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) of 239 nt with 163-nt hairpins. The monosense genome with three open reading frames is typical of the genus Iteradensovirus in the subfamily Densovirinae of the family Parvoviridae.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Zoologie des invertébrés; Virologie

Qian Yu, Peter Tijssen. Iteradensovirus from the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus plexippus.. Genome Announcements, 2014, 2 (2), pp.1-2. ⟨10.1128/genomeA.00321-14⟩. ⟨pasteur-01146107⟩