TY - JOUR
T1 - Identification of an avian polyomavirus associated with Adé lie penguins (pygoscelis adeliae)
AU - Varsani, Arvind
AU - Porzig, Elizabeth L.
AU - Jennings, Scott
AU - Kraberger, Simona
AU - Farkas, Kata
AU - Julian, Laurel
AU - Massaro, Melanie
AU - Ballard, Grant
AU - Ainley, David G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Authors.
PY - 2015/4/1
Y1 - 2015/4/1
N2 - Little is known about viruses associated with Antarctic animals, although they are probably widespread. We recovered a novel polyomavirus from Adé lie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) faecal matter sampled in a subcolony at Cape Royds, Ross Island, Antarctica. The 4988 nt Adé lie penguin polyomavirus (AdPyV) has a typical polyomavirus genome organization with three ORFs that encoded capsid proteins on the one strand and two non-structural protein-coding ORFs on the complementary strand. The genome of AdPyV shared ~60% pairwise identity with all avipolyomaviruses. Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analysis of the large T-antigen (T-Ag) amino acid sequences showed that the T-Ag of AdPyV clustered with those of avipolyomaviruses, sharing between 48 and 52% identities. Only three viruses associated with Adé lie penguins have been identified at a genomic level, avian influenza virus subtype H11N2 from the Antarctic Peninsula and, respectively, Pygoscelis adeliae papillomavirus and AdPyV from capes Crozier and Royds on Ross Island.
AB - Little is known about viruses associated with Antarctic animals, although they are probably widespread. We recovered a novel polyomavirus from Adé lie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) faecal matter sampled in a subcolony at Cape Royds, Ross Island, Antarctica. The 4988 nt Adé lie penguin polyomavirus (AdPyV) has a typical polyomavirus genome organization with three ORFs that encoded capsid proteins on the one strand and two non-structural protein-coding ORFs on the complementary strand. The genome of AdPyV shared ~60% pairwise identity with all avipolyomaviruses. Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analysis of the large T-antigen (T-Ag) amino acid sequences showed that the T-Ag of AdPyV clustered with those of avipolyomaviruses, sharing between 48 and 52% identities. Only three viruses associated with Adé lie penguins have been identified at a genomic level, avian influenza virus subtype H11N2 from the Antarctic Peninsula and, respectively, Pygoscelis adeliae papillomavirus and AdPyV from capes Crozier and Royds on Ross Island.
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U2 - 10.1099/vir.0.000038
DO - 10.1099/vir.0.000038
M3 - Article
C2 - 25537375
AN - SCOPUS:84924973188
SN - 0022-1317
VL - 96
SP - 851
EP - 857
JO - Journal of General Virology
JF - Journal of General Virology
IS - 4
ER -