A New Family of DNA Viruses Causing Disease in Crustaceans from Diverse Aquatic Biomes

A New Family of DNA Viruses Causing Disease in Crustaceans from Diverse Aquatic Biomes

ABSTRACT Panulirus argus virus 1 (PaV1) is the only known virus infecting the Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) from the Caribbean Sea. Recently, related viruses, Dikerogammarus haemobaphes virus 1 (DhV1) and Carcinus maenas virus 1 (CmV1), have been detected in the demon shrimp (Dikerogamma...

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Main Authors: Kuttichantran Subramaniam, Donald C. Behringer, Jamie Bojko, Natalya Yutin, Abigail S. Clark, Kelly S. Bateman, Ronny van Aerle, David Bass, Rose C. Kerr, Eugene V. Koonin, Grant D. Stentiford, Thomas B. Waltzek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-02-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
Crustacea
genome degradation
large nucleocytoplasmic DNA viruses
low-complexity sequences
virus evolution
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02938-19

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