Metagenomic Analysis of Cucumber RNA from East Timor Reveals an Aphid lethal paralysis virus Genome

Solomon Maina; Owain R Edwards; Luis de Almeida; Abel Ximenes; Roger A C Jones

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01445-16

Metagenomic Analysis of Cucumber RNA from East Timor Reveals an Aphid lethal paralysis virus Genome

Genome Announc. 2017 Jan 12;5(2):e01445-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01445-16.

Authors

Solomon Maina^{1

2

3}, Owain R Edwards^{3

4}, Luis de Almeida⁵, Abel Ximenes⁶, Roger A C Jones^{7

3

8}

Affiliations

¹ School of Agriculture and Environment, Faculty of Science, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
² Institute of Agriculture, Faculty of Science, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
³ Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Biosecurity, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
⁴ CSIRO Land and Water, Floreat Park, Western Australia, Australia.
⁵ Seeds of Life Project, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dili, East Timor.
⁶ DNQB-Plant Quarantine International Airport Nicolau Lobato Comoro, Dili, East Timor.
⁷ Institute of Agriculture, Faculty of Science, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia roger.jones@uwa.edu.au.
⁸ Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, South Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Abstract

We present here the first complete genomic Aphid lethal paralysis virus (ALPV) sequence isolated from cucumber plant RNA from East Timor. We compare it with two complete ALPV genome sequences from China, and one each from Israel, South Africa, and the United States. It most closely resembled the Chinese isolate LGH genome.