Isolation of a novel species of flavivirus and a new strain of Culex flavivirus (Flaviviridae) from a natural mosquito population in Uganda

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2669-2678

  Cook, Shelley ^a   Moureau, Gregory ^b   Harbach, Ralph E ^a   Mukwaya, Louis ^c   Goodger, Kim ^a   Ssenfuka, Fred ^c   Gould, Ernest ^b,d   Holmes, Edward C ^e   de Lamballerie, Xavier ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b Aix Marseille University IRD 190 Inserm 1207   (France)

^c UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX FLAVIVIRUS; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS; INSECT CELL; JAPAN; KENYA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERTO RICO; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; THAILAND; UGANDA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULEX; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STERCULIACEAE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; VIROLOGY;

CELL FUSING AGENT VIRUS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; HEXAPODA; IXODIDA; KAMITI RIVER VIRUS; MANSONIA AFRICANA; RNA VIRUSES;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULEX; FLAVIVIRUS; GENOTYPE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STERCULIACEAE; UGANDA; VIRION;

EID: 70350449280     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.014183-0     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Baqar, S., Hayes, C. G., Murphy, J. R. & Watts, D. M. (1993). Vertical transmission of West Nile virus by Culex and Aedes species mosquitoes. Am J Trop Med Hyg 48, 757-762.
2. Cammisa-Parks, H., Cisar, L. A., Kane, A. & Stollar, V. (1992). The complete nucleotide sequence of cell fusing agent (CFA): homology between the nonstructural proteins encoded by CFA and the nonstructural proteins encoded by arthropod-borne flaviviruses. Virology 189, 511-524.
3. Cook, S., Bennett, S. N., Holmes, E. C., De Chesse, R., Moureau, G. & de Lamballerie, X. (2006). Isolation of a new strain of the flavivirus cell fusing agent virus in a natural mosquito population from Puerto Rico. J Gen Virol 87, 735-748.
4. Crabtree, M. B., Sang, R. C., Stollar, V., Dunster, L. M. & Miller, B. R. (2003). Genetic and phenotypic characterization of the newly described insect flavivirus, Kamiti River virus. Arch Virol 148, 1095-1118.
5. Crochu, S., Cook, S., Attoui, H., Charrel, R., De Cheese, R., Belhouchet, M., Lemasson, J.-J., de Micco, P. & de Lamballarie, X. (2004). Sequence of flavivirus-related RNA viruses persist in DNA form in the genome of Aedes spp. mosquitoes. J Gen Virol 85, 1971-1980.
6. Drummond, A. J. & Rambaut, A. (2007). BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees. BMC Evol Biol 7, 214.
7. Edgar, R. C. (2004). MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput. Nucleic Acids Res 32, 1792-1797.
8. Edwards, F. W. (1941). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region III - Culicine Adults and Pupae. London: British Museum.
9. Emonet, S., Grard, G., Brisbarre, N., Moureau, G., Temmam, S., Charrel, R. & de Lamballerie, X. (2006). LoPPS: a long PCR product sequencing method for rapid characterisation of long amplicons. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 344, 1080-1085.
10. Emonet, S. F., Grard, G., Brisbarre, N.M.,Moureau, G. N., Temmam, S., Charrel, R. N. & de Lamballerie, X. (2007). Long PCR product sequencing (LoPPS): a shotgun-based approach to sequence long PCR products. Nat Protoc 2, 340-346.
11. Farfan-Ale, J. A., Loroño-Pino, M. A., Garcia-Rejon, J. E., Hovav, E., Powers, A. M., Lin, M., Dorman, K. S., Platt, K. B., Bartholomay, L. C. & other authors (2009). Detection of RNA from a novel West Nile-like virus and high prevalence of an insect-specific flavivirus in mosquitoes in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg 80, 85-95.
12. Folmer, O., Black, M., Hoeh, W., Lutz, R. & Vrijenhoek, R. (1994). DNA primers for amplification of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I from diverse metazoan invertebrates. Mol Mar Biol Biotechnol 3, 294-297.
13. Gaunt, M. W. & Gould, E. (2005). Rapid subgroup identification of the flaviviruses using degenerate primer E gene RT-PCR and site specific restriction enzyme analysis. J Virol Methods 128, 113-117.
14. Gaunt, M. W., Sall, A. A., de Lamballarie, X., Falconar, A. K. I., Dzihivanian, T. I. & Gould, E. A. (2001). Phylogenetic relationships of flaviviruses correlate with their epidemiology, disease association and biogeography. J Gen Virol 82, 1867-1876.
15. Gould, E. A., de Lamballerie, X., Zanotto, P. M. & Holmes, E. C. (2003). Origins, evolution, and vector/host coadaptations within the genus Flavivirus. Adv Virus Res 59, 277-314.
16. Grard, G., Moureau, G., Charrel, R. N., Lemasson, J.-J., Gonzalez, J.-P., Gallian, P., Gritsun, T., Holmes, E. C., Gould, E. A. & de Lamballerie, X. (2007). Genetic characterisation of tick-borne flaviviruses: new insights into evolution, pathogenetic determinants and taxonomy. Virology 361, 80-92.
17. Hebert, P. D. N., Cywinska, A., Ball, S. L. & deWaard, J. R. (2003). Biological identifications through DNA barcodes. Proc Biol Sci 270, 313-321.
18. Hoshino, K., Isawa, H., Tsuda, Y., Kazuhiko, Y., Sasaki, T., Yuda, M., Takasaki, T., Kobayashi, M. & Sawabe, K. (2007). Genetic characterization of a new insect flavivirus isolated from Culex pipiens mosquito in Japan. Virology 359, 405-414.
19. Huelsenbeck, J. P. & Ronquist, F. (2001). MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogeny. Bioinformatics 17, 754-755.
20. Kihara, Y., Satho, T., Eshita, Y., Sakai, K., Kotaki, A., Takasaki, T., Rongsriyam, Y., Komalamisra, N., Srisawat, R. & other authors (2007). Rapid determination of viral RNA sequences in mosquitoes collected in the field. J Virol Methods 146, 372-374.
21. Kim, D. Y., Guzman, H., Bueno, R., Jr, Dennett, J. A., Auguste, A. J., Carrington, C. V. F., Popov, V. L., Weaver, S. C., Beasley, D. W. C. & Tesh, R. B. (2009). Characterization of Culex flavivirus (Flaviviridae) strains isolated from mosquitoes in the United States and Trinidad. Virology 386, 154-159.
22. Kuno, G. (2007). Host range specificity of flaviviruses: correlation with in vitro replication. J Med Entomol 44, 93-101.
23. Kuno, G., Chang, G.-J. J., Tsuchiya, K. R., Karabatsos, N. & Cropp, C. B. (1998). Phylogeny of the genus Flavivirus. J Virol 72, 73-83.
24. Lounibos, L. P. (2002). Invasions by insect vectors of human disease. Annu Rev Entomol 47, 233-266.
25. Lunt, D. H., Zhang, D.-X., Szymura, J. M. & Hewitt, G. M. (1996). The insect cytochrome oxidase I gene: evolutionary patterns and conserved primers for phylogenetic studies. Insect Mol Biol 5, 153-165.
26. Morales-Betoulle,M. E., Monzo' n Pineda, M. L., Sosa, S.M., Panella, N., Lo' pez, M. R., Cordón-Rosales, C., Komar, N., Powers, A. & Johnson, B. W. (2008). Culex flavivirus isolates from mosquitoes in Guatemala. J Med Entomol 45, 1187-1190.
27. Moureau, G., Temmam, S., Gonzalez, J. P., Charrel, R. N., Grard, G. & de Lamballerie, X. (2007). A real-time RT-PCR method for the universal detection and identification of flaviviruses. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 7, 467-478.
28. Moureau, G., Ninove, L., Izri, A., Cook, S., de Lamballerie, X. & Charrel, R. N. (2009). Flavivirus RNA in phlebotomine sandflies. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (in press). doi:10.1089/vbz.2008.0216
29. Posada, D. & Crandall, K. A. (1998). MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution. Bioinformatics 14, 817-818.
30. Pybus, O. G., Rambaut, A., Holmes, E. & Harvey, P. H. (2002). New inferences from tree shape: numbers of missing taxa and population growth rates. Syst Biol 51, 881-888.
31. Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P. D. N. (2007). BOLD: the Barcode of Life Data System. Mol Ecol Notes 7, 355-364.
32. Reinert, J. F. (2000). New classification for the composite genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini), elevation of subgenus Ochlerotatus to generic rank, reclassification of the other subgenera, and notes on certain subgenera and species. J Am Mosq Control Assoc 16, 175-188.
33. Reinert, J. F., Harbach, R. E. & Kitching, I. J. (2004). Phylogeny and classification of Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae), based on morphological characters of all life stages. Zool J Linn Soc 142, 289-368.
34. Reinert, J. F., Harbach, R. E. & Kitching, I. J. (2006). Phylogeny and classification of Finlaya and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages. Zool J Linn Soc 148, 1-101.
35. Reinert, J. F., Harbach, R. E. & Kitching, I. J. (2008). Phylogeny and classification of Ochlerotatus and allied taxa (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) based on morphological data from all life stages. Zool J Linn Soc 153, 29-114.
36. Sallum, M. A. M., Schultz, T. R., Foster, P. G., Aronstein, K., Wirtz, R. A. & Wilkerson, R. C. (2002). Phylogeny of Anophelinae (Diptera: Culicidae) based on nuclear ribosomal and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Syst Entomol 27, 361-382.
37. Sang, R. C., Gichogo, A., Gachoya, J., Dunster, M. D., Ofula, V., Hunt, A. R., Crabtree, M. B., Miller, B. R. & Dunster, L. M. (2003). Isolation of a new flavivirus related to cell fusing agent virus (CFAV) from field-collected flood-water Aedes mosquitoes sampled from a dambo in central Kenya. Arch Virol 148, 1085-1093.
38. Service, M. W. (1990). Handbook to the Afrotropical Toxorhynchitine and Culicine Mosquitoes, excepting Aedes and Culex. London: British Museum.
39. Severini, C., Silvestrini, F., Mancini, P., La Rosa, G. & Marinucci, M. (1996). Sequence and secondary structure of the rDNA second internal transcribed spacer in the sibling species Culex pipiens L. and Cx. quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae). Insect Mol Biol 5, 181-186.
40. Stollar, V. & Thomas, V. (1975). An agent in the Aedes aegypti cell line (Peleg) which causes fusion of Aedes albopictus cells. Virology 64, 367-377.
41. Swofford, D. L. (2000). PAUP*: phylogenetic analysis using parsimony (*and other methods), v4. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
42. Talavera, G. & Castresana, J. (2007). Improvement of phylogenies after removing divergent and ambiguously aligned blocks from protein sequence alignments. Syst Biol 56, 564-577.