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Novel Virus on Filamentous Arthronema africanum Cyanobacterium

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Widely distributed in water environments and in soil, cyanobacteria are hosts of lysogenic or lytic bacterioviruses. A novel, probably lysogenic virus (phage) for which the name Arthronema africanum virus TR020 (Aa-TR020) is proposed, has been isolated from filamentous freshwater cyanobacterium Arthronema africanum. The virus formed turbid plaques on plate culture of A. africanum strain 1980/01 but not on other Arthronema strain and other bacterial species. The genome of Aa-TR020 is linear molecule of dsDNA, 44,805 bp in length with 216 bp long terminal repeats and with G + C content of 46%. Fifty-five genes organized on plus and minus strands were predicted there. The genome size, gene arrangement, and selected protein sequences showed relatedness to Phormidium virus Pf-WMP3 and other viruses known to infect cyanobacteria and classified in the family Podoviridae.

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This work was done with institutional support RVO60077344 and RVO67985939 and support from the Technological Agency of the Czech Republic Biocirtech T01000048.

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  1. Department of Plant Virology, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

    Karel Petrzik & Igor Koloniuk

  2. Centre for Phycology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Dukelská 135, Třeboň, Czech Republic

    Jaromír Lukavský

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Petrzik, K., Lukavský, J. & Koloniuk, I. Novel Virus on Filamentous Arthronema africanum Cyanobacterium. Microb Ecol 81, 454–459 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01599-2

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