A nonoccluded virus in nymphs of the dragonfly Leucorrhinia dubia (Odonata, Anisoptera)

Charpentier, R.

doi:10.1016/0022-2011(79)90061-2

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“…Little is known regarding the potential impact of viral infections on dragonfly populations. To our knowledge there is only one report of a dragonfly virus, which is based solely on electron microscopic analysis (Charpentier, 1979). Based on the morphology of the infective particles and histopathology of midgut tissues, the virus was presumed to be a parvovirus, since parvoviruses were the only small DNA viruses known to infect insects at that time.…”

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Dragonfly cyclovirus, a novel single-stranded DNA virus discovered in dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera)

Rosario

Marinov

Stainton

et al. 2011

Journal of General Virology

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Dragonfly cyclovirus (DfCyV), a new species of ssDNA virus discovered using viral metagenomics in dragonflies (family Libellulidae) from the Kingdom of Tonga. Metagenomic sequences of DfCyV were similar to viruses of the recently proposed genus Cyclovirus within the family Circoviridae. Specific PCRs resulted in the recovery of 21 DfCyV genomes from three dragonfly species (Pantala flavescens, Tholymis tillarga and Diplacodes bipunctata). The 1741 nt DfCyV genomes share .95 % nucleotide identity and are classified into 11 subtypes representing a single strain. The DfCyV genomes share 48-63 % genome-wide nucleotide identity with cycloviruses identified in human faecal samples. Recombination analysis revealed three recombinant DfCyV genomes, suggesting that recombination plays an important role in cyclovirus evolution. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a circular ssDNA virus identified in insects, and the data may help elucidate evolutionary links among novel Circoviridae recently identified in animals and environmental samples.

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Dragonfly cyclovirus, a novel single-stranded DNA virus discovered in dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera)

Rosario

Marinov

Stainton

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Journal of General Virology

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“…There have been very few studies of viruses as pathogens of odonates. Following on from a microscopic study (Charpentier, 1979) only a handful of studies have demonstrated the rich diversity of viruses in dragonflies (Dayaram et al, 2013(Dayaram et al, , 2014(Dayaram et al, , 2015Rosario et al, 2011Rosario et al, , 2012Rosario et al, , 2013. Rosario et al (2011Rosario et al ( , 2012Rosario et al ( , 2013 describe cycloviruses in dragonflies from New Zealand, Australia and North America.…”

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“…Yet we did not find any evidence for cycloviruses in our L. dubia samples from Sweden, possibly due to a methodological bias of RNAseq towards RNA viruses. Charpentier's (1979) morphological description of a densovirus from L. dubia seems to be the earliest description of any virus in odonates (Corbet, 1999). Here we found evidence of densoviruses in L. dubia from two populations.…”

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“…Viruses, omnipresent in all forms of life, have only been described in a handful of papers in odonates (Charpentier, 1979;Dayaram, Galatowitsch, Harding, Argüello-Astorga, & Varsani, 2014;Dayaram et al, 2013Dayaram et al, , 2015Rosario et al, 2011Rosario et al, , 2012Rosario et al, , 2013 which mostly focus on circular single-stranded DNA viruses. Next-generation sequencing of genomes and transcriptomes now allows the discovery of viruses across the tree of life.…”

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Identification of viruses associated with larvae of the dragonflyLeucorrhinia dubia, and damselflyCoenagrion puellafrom RNA sequencing data

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Mikolajewski²,

Rolff³

2015

International Journal of Odonatology

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Dragonflies and damselflies are hosts to a variety of parasites and pathogens. However, very few studies have investigated which viruses infect dragonflies and damselflies. Here, based on next generation RNA sequencing of RNA from Leucorrhinia dubia (Libellulidae, Anisoptera) and Coenagrion puella (Coenagrionidae, Zygoptera) larvae, data on putative viruses present in odonates are reported. In both species around 20 different putative viruses, often belonging to genera known from other insect species, were found. The annotated genome structure of one novel putative iflavirus in C. puella and new putative iflavirus, dicistrovirus and posa-lika viruses in L. dubia are described. The influence of these viruses on host fitness and their modes of transmission remain to be determined.

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“…The same diversity of cellular tropism is observed in nonlepidopteran insects. Thus, DNV infection in the mosquito A. aegypti (Buchatsky, 1989;Barreau et a1., 1996), the blackfly Simulium vittatum (Federici, 1976), the dragonfly Leucorrhinia dubia (Charpentier, 1979), and the cricket Acheta domesticus (Meynadier et a1., 1977c) display a wide tissue tropism, whereas in the cockroach, Periplaneta fuliginosa, the infection is limited to the hindgut (Suto et a1., 1979).…”

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The Insect Viruses

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viii PREFACE an environmental perspective. Viral diseases in beneficial insects can lead to ecological problems, while diseases of insect pests are often welcomed as a means of reducing economic and medical problems. Furthermore, like the baculoviruses, some of the viruses described in this volume are likely to become valuable tools in the escalating human efforts to control and manipulate the ecosystem.The large DNA viruses are described first, beginning with the entomopoxviruses and iridoviruses, followed by those that rely more heavily on insect vectors for their propagation, and then the small DNA densoviruses. These are followed by the RNA viruses, beginning with an account of the three-dimensional structures of small RNA viruses, followed by chapters describing each of the major families of insect RNA viruses, and ending with a review of the development of arbovirus expression systems and how they may be employed in the future.

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A nonoccluded virus in nymphs of the dragonfly Leucorrhinia dubia (Odonata, Anisoptera)

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Dragonfly cyclovirus, a novel single-stranded DNA virus discovered in dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera)

Dragonfly cyclovirus, a novel single-stranded DNA virus discovered in dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera)

Identification of viruses associated with larvae of the dragonflyLeucorrhinia dubia, and damselflyCoenagrion puellafrom RNA sequencing data

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