Genome Sequence of a Novel Iflavirus from mRNA Sequencing of the Butterfly Heliconius erato

Gilbert Smith; Aide Macias-Muñoz; Adriana D Briscoe

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00398-14

Genome Sequence of a Novel Iflavirus from mRNA Sequencing of the Butterfly Heliconius erato

Genome Announc. 2014 May 15;2(3):e00398-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00398-14.

Authors

Gilbert Smith¹, Aide Macias-Muñoz², Adriana D Briscoe²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA gsmith1@uci.edu.
² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.

Abstract

Here, we report the genome sequence of a novel iflavirus strain recovered from the neotropical butterfly Heliconius erato. The coding DNA sequence (CDS) of the iflavirus genome was 8,895 nucleotides in length, encoding a polyprotein that was 2,965 amino acids long.