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High global diversity of cycloviruses amongst dragonflies

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of General Virology, April 2013
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Title
High global diversity of cycloviruses amongst dragonflies
Published in
Journal of General Virology, April 2013
DOI 10.1099/vir.0.052654-0
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Anisha Dayaram, Kristen A Potter, Angela B Moline, Dana Drake Rosenstein, Milen Marinov, John E Thomas, Mya Breitbart, Karyna Rosario, Gerardo R Argüello-Astorga, Arvind Varsani

Abstract

Members of the family Circoviridae, specifically the genus Circovirus, were thought to infect only vertebrates; however, members of a sister group under the same family, the proposed genus Cyclovirus, have been detected recently in insects. In an effort to explore the diversity of cycloviruses and better understand the evolution of these novel ssDNA viruses, here we present five cycloviruses isolated from three dragonfly species (Orthetrum sabina, Xanthocnemis zealandica and Rhionaeschna multicolor) collected in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, respectively. The genomes of these five viruses share similar genome structure to other cycloviruses, with a circular ~1.7 kb genome and two major bidirectionally transcribed ORFs. The genomic sequence data gathered during this study were combined with all cyclovirus genomes available in public databases to identify conserved motifs and regulatory elements in the intergenic regions, as well as determine diversity and recombinant regions within their genomes. The genomes reported here represent four different cyclovirus species, three of which are novel. Our results confirm that cycloviruses circulate widely in winged-insect populations; in eight different cyclovirus species identified in dragonflies to date, some of these exhibit a broad geographical distribution. Recombination analysis revealed both intra- and inter-species recombination events amongst cycloviruses, including genomes recovered from disparate sources (e.g. goat meat and human faeces). Similar to other well-characterized circular ssDNA viruses, recombination may play an important role in cyclovirus evolution.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
New Zealand 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Unknown 42 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 18%
Student > Bachelor 5 11%
Student > Master 4 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 7%
Other 7 16%
Unknown 8 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 44%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 13%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 3 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 4%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 10 22%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 February 2018.
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#7,356,550
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Outputs from Journal of General Virology
#2,315
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#59,181
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of General Virology
#11
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