Laboratory of Biology of Arboviruses, FSASI Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products of RAS, 108819 Moscow, Russia.
Institute for Translational Medicine and Biotechnology, Sechenov University, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
Viruses. 2024 Sep 19;16(9):1486. doi: 10.3390/v16091486.
Advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatics have led to breakthroughs in the study of virus biodiversity. Millipedes (Diplopoda, Myriapoda, Arthropoda) include more than 12,000 extant species, yet data on virus diversity in Diplopoda are scarce. This study aimed to explore the virome of the millipedes collected in the Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve in Vietnam. We studied 14 species of millipedes and managed to assemble and annotate the complete coding genomes of 16 novel viruses, the partial coding genomes of 10 more viruses, and several fragmented viral sequences, which may indicate the presence of about 54 more viruses in the studied samples. Among the complete and partial genomes, 27% were putative members of the order . Most of the discovered viruses were very distant from the viruses currently present in the relevant databases. At least eight viruses meet the criteria to be recognized as a new species by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, and, for two of them, a higher taxonomic status (genus and even family) can be suggested.
测序技术和生物信息学的进步推动了病毒生物多样性研究的突破。千足虫（多足纲，节肢动物）包括 12000 多种现存物种，但有关多足纲病毒多样性的数据却很少。本研究旨在探索越南东奈生物圈保护区采集的千足虫的病毒组。我们研究了 14 种千足虫，成功组装和注释了 16 种新病毒的完整编码基因组、10 种更多病毒的部分编码基因组和一些碎片化的病毒序列，这可能表明在研究样本中存在大约 54 种更多的病毒。在完整和部分基因组中，有 27%是假定的. 目成员。大多数发现的病毒与目前相关数据库中的病毒非常不同。至少有 8 种病毒符合国际病毒分类学委员会认定为新种的标准，其中两种病毒可以被认为具有更高的分类地位（属，甚至科）。
