Brewer Seth A, Adler Meaghan J, Martin Mckayla M, Rozo-Lopez Paula, Parker Benjamin J
Microbiology, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.
Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.
MicroPubl Biol. 2025 Jan 17;2025. doi: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001385. eCollection 2025.
Fireflies are iconic insects that are under threat from environmental change. Knowledge of the viral diversity associated with natural firefly populations is important to our understanding of the basic biology of these insects and could be relevant to firefly conservation. We performed metatranscriptome sequencing of the Common Eastern Firefly ( and assembled genomes for two new species of virus in the families Iflaviridae and Partitiviridae. We surveyed multiple individuals for these viruses using PCR, and we showed that both viruses are found at intermediate frequences in a natural population.
萤火虫是具有代表性的昆虫，但正受到环境变化的威胁。了解与自然萤火虫种群相关的病毒多样性，对于我们理解这些昆虫的基本生物学特性很重要，并且可能与萤火虫的保护相关。我们对东部常见萤火虫进行了宏转录组测序，并为弹状病毒科和双分病毒科中的两种新病毒组装了基因组。我们使用聚合酶链式反应（PCR）对多个个体进行了这些病毒的检测，结果表明这两种病毒在自然种群中都以中等频率被发现。
