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SUBMITTER: Urayama SI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6308001 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Microbes and environments 20181013 4
The deep sea, the largest biosphere on Earth, nurtures a large variety of animals. However, no virus that infects deep-sea animals has been found. We herein report the first full-length RNA viral genome sequence identified from the deep-sea animal, Osedax japonicus, called Osedax japonicus RNA virus 1 (OjRV1). This sequence showed the highest amino acid sequence similarity to a virus of the family Togaviridae. However, the phylogenetic position and genome structure of OjRV1 differed from those o ...[more]