Genome Sequence of a Single-Stranded DNA Virus Identified in Gila Monster Feces

Vasishta Somayaji; Dale DeNardo; Melissa A Wilson Sayres; Mellecha Blake; Kara Waits; Rafaela S Fontenele; Simona Kraberger; Arvind Varsani

doi:10.1128/MRA.00925-18

Genome Sequence of a Single-Stranded DNA Virus Identified in Gila Monster Feces

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2018 Aug 23;7(7):e00925-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00925-18. eCollection 2018 Aug.

Authors

Vasishta Somayaji¹, Dale DeNardo², Melissa A Wilson Sayres^{2

3}, Mellecha Blake^{1

2}, Kara Waits¹, Rafaela S Fontenele¹, Simona Kraberger¹, Arvind Varsani^{1

2

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
² School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
³ Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
⁴ Structural Biology Research Unit, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.

Abstract

The Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) is native to the Sonoran Desert. Metagenomic analyses of a Gila monster fecal sample revealed the presence of a small, circular, single-stranded DNA virus that is most closely related to a gemykrogvirus (family Genomoviridae) genome from caribou feces sharing 88% genome-wide pairwise identity.