Genome Sequence of a Central Chimpanzee-Associated Polyomavirus Related to BK and JC Polyomaviruses, Pan troglodytes troglodytes Polyomavirus 1

Nadège F Madinda; Martha M Robbins; Christophe Boesch; Fabian H Leendertz; Bernhard Ehlers; Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00888-15

Genome Sequence of a Central Chimpanzee-Associated Polyomavirus Related to BK and JC Polyomaviruses, Pan troglodytes troglodytes Polyomavirus 1

Genome Announc. 2015 Sep 3;3(5):e00888-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00888-15.

Authors

Nadège F Madinda¹, Martha M Robbins², Christophe Boesch², Fabian H Leendertz³, Bernhard Ehlers⁴, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer³

Affiliations

¹ Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Institut de Recherches en Ecologie Tropicale, Libreville, Gabon.
² Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
³ Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ FG12 "Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Viruses Affecting Immunocompromised Patients," Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

We amplified and sequenced the genome of a polyomavirus infecting a central chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes). This virus, which is closely related to BK and JC polyomaviruses, may help shed a new light on these human pathogens' evolutionary history.