Genome Sequence of a Fish-Associated Polyomavirus, Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) Polyomavirus 1

Alberto Peretti; Peter C FitzGerald; Valery Bliskovsky; Diana V Pastrana; Christopher B Buck

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01476-14

Genome Sequence of a Fish-Associated Polyomavirus, Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) Polyomavirus 1

Genome Announc. 2015 Jan 29;3(1):e01476-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01476-14.

Authors

Alberto Peretti¹, Peter C FitzGerald¹, Valery Bliskovsky¹, Diana V Pastrana¹, Christopher B Buck²

Affiliations

¹ National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
² National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA buckc@mail.nih.gov.

Abstract

All known polyomaviruses are associated with mammals or birds. Using virion enrichment, random-primed rolling circle amplification, and deep sequencing, we identified a polyomavirus associated with black sea bass (Centropristis striata). The virus has a variety of novel genetic features, suggesting a long evolutionary separation from polyomaviruses of terrestrial animals.