Strain Kaplan of Pseudorabies Virus Genome Sequenced by PacBio Single-Molecule Real-Time Sequencing Technology

Dóra Tombácz; Donald Sharon; Péter Oláh; Zsolt Csabai; Michael Snyder; Zsolt Boldogkői

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00628-14

Strain Kaplan of Pseudorabies Virus Genome Sequenced by PacBio Single-Molecule Real-Time Sequencing Technology

Genome Announc. 2014 Jul 17;2(4):e00628-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00628-14.

Authors

Dóra Tombácz¹, Donald Sharon², Péter Oláh¹, Zsolt Csabai¹, Michael Snyder², Zsolt Boldogkői³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
² Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary [email protected].

Abstract

Pseudorabies virus (PRV) is a neurotropic herpesvirus that causes Aujeszky's disease in pigs. PRV strains are widely used as transsynaptic tracers for mapping neural circuits. We present here the complete and fully annotated genome sequence of strain Kaplan of PRV, determined by Pacific Biosciences RSII long-read sequencing technology.