Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 602: Two Novel Geminiviruses Identified in Bees (Apis mellifera and Nomia sp.)

Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 602: Two Novel Geminiviruses Identified in Bees (Apis mellifera and Nomia sp.) Viruses doi: 10.3390/v16040602 Authors: Rohan Antonio Bandoo Simona Kraberger Arvind Varsani Members of the Geminviridae family are circular single-stranded DNA plant-infecting viruses, some of which impact global food production. Geminiviruses are vectored by sap-feeding insects such as leafhoppers, treehoppers, aphids, and whiteflies. Additionally, geminivirus sequences have also been identified in other insects such as dragonflies, mosquitoes, and stingless bees. As part of a viral metagenomics study on honeybees and solitary bees (Nomia sp.), two geminivirus genomes were identified. These represent a novel citlodavirus (from honeybees collected from Westmoreland, Jamaica) and a mastrevirus-like genome (from a solitary bee collected from Tempe, Arizona, USA). The novel honeybee-derived citlodavirus genome shares ~61 to 69% genome-wide nucleotide pairwise identity with other citlodavirus genome sequences and is most closely related to the passion fruit chlorotic mottle virus identified in Brazil. Whereas the novel solitary bee-derived mastrevirus-like genome shares ~55 to 61% genome-wide nucleotide identity with other mastreviruses and is most closely related to tobacco yellow dwarf virus identified in Australia, based on pairwise identity scores of the full genome, replication-associated protein, and capsid protein sequences. Previously, two geminiviruses in t...
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