Genome sequence of a crustacean iridovirus, IIV31, isolated from the pill bug, [i]Armadillidium vulgare[/i]

Benoit Piegu (1) , Sébastien Guizard (1) , Tan Yeping (2) , Corinne Cruaud (3, 4) , Sassan Asgari (5) , Dennis K. Bideshi (6, 7) , Brian A. Federici (8) , Yves Bigot (1)

1 PRC - Physiologie de la reproduction et des comportements [Nouzilly]
2 Department of Entomology, Molecular and Developmental Biology; Interdepartmental Graduate Programs in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology
3 CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
4 Institut de Génomique
5 School of Biological Sciences
6 Department of Entomology, Molecular and Developmental Biology
7 Department of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
8 Department of Entomology, Molecular and Developmental Biology, Interdepartmental Graduate Programs in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology

Members of the family Iridoviridae are animal viruses that infect only invertebrates and poikilothermic vertebrates. The invertebrate iridovirus 31 (IIV31) was originally isolated from adult pill bugs, Armadillidium vulgare (class Crustacea, order Isopoda, suborder Oniscidea), found in southern California on the campus of the University of California, Riverside, USA. IIV31 virions are icosahedral, have a diameter of about 135 nm, and contain a dsDNA genome 220.222 kbp in length, with 35.09 mol % G+C content and 203 ORFs. Here, we describe the complete genome sequence of this virus and its annotation. This is the eighth genome sequence of an IIV reported.

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Benoit Piegu, Sébastien Guizard, Tan Yeping, Corinne Cruaud, Sassan Asgari, et al.. Genome sequence of a crustacean iridovirus, IIV31, isolated from the pill bug, [i]Armadillidium vulgare[/i]. Journal of General Virology, 2014, 95 (7), pp.1585-1590. ⟨10.1099/vir.0.066076-0⟩. ⟨hal-01129876⟩