Draft Genome Sequence of Tokyovirus, a Member of the Family Marseilleviridae Isolated from the Arakawa River of Tokyo, Japan

Masaharu Takemura

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00429-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Tokyovirus, a Member of the Family Marseilleviridae Isolated from the Arakawa River of Tokyo, Japan

Genome Announc. 2016 Jun 9;4(3):e00429-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00429-16.

Author

Masaharu Takemura¹

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory of Biology, Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan takemura@rs.kagu.tus.ac.jp.

Abstract

Members of the Marseilleviridae family are large DNA viruses with icosahedral particles that infect Acanthamoeba cells. This report presents a new Marseilleviridae family member discovered in a water/soil sample from a river in Tokyo, named Tokyovirus, with genome size of 370 to 380 kb.

Grants and funding

This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.