He Zhen, Mijit Mahmut, Li Shifang, Zhang Zhixiang
School of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Wenhui East Road No. 48, Yangzhou, 225009, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
State Key Laboratory of Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Yuanmingyuan West Road No. 2, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China.
Arch Virol. 2017 Apr;162(4):1145-1148. doi: 10.1007/s00705-016-3204-1. Epub 2017 Jan 2.
The complete nucleotide sequence of fig fleck-associated virus from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China (FFkaV-CN) was determined. The 6,723-nucleotide-long viral genome, excluding a terminal poly(A) tail, contains three open reading frames (ORFs). Pairwise comparisons showed that FFkaV-CN shares 83% and 92% sequence identity with FFkaV-Italy based on the complete genomic sequence and CP aa sequence, respectively, slightly higher than the species demarcation criterion for the genus Maculavirus. Phylogenetic analysis showed that FFkaV-CN and FFkaV-Italy clustered into one group. These results indicate that FFkaV-CN is a novel strain of FFkaV with a genome organization somewhat different from what was reported for FFkaV-Italy.