Draft Genome Sequences of Six Novel Picorna-Like Viruses from Washington State Spiders

Ryan C Shean; Negar Makhsous; Rodney L Crawford; Keith R Jerome; Alexander L Greninger

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01705-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Six Novel Picorna-Like Viruses from Washington State Spiders

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 2;5(9):e01705-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01705-16.

Authors

Ryan C Shean¹, Negar Makhsous¹, Rodney L Crawford², Keith R Jerome^{1

3}, Alexander L Greninger^{4

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
² Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
³ Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA [email protected].

Abstract

We report draft genome sequences of six novel Picornavirales members from six different spider species found in Washington state. These six viral sequences distinctly clustered together phylogenetically with less than 35% amino acid identity to the closest reference viral genome.