Complete Genome Sequence of a New Member of the Marseilleviridae Recovered from the Brackish Submarine Spring in the Cassis Port-Miou Calanque, France

Gabriel Doutre; Bruno Arfib; Pierre Rochette; Jean-Michel Claverie; Patricia Bonin; Chantal Abergel

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01148-15

Complete Genome Sequence of a New Member of the Marseilleviridae Recovered from the Brackish Submarine Spring in the Cassis Port-Miou Calanque, France

Genome Announc. 2015 Nov 25;3(6):e01148-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01148-15.

Authors

Gabriel Doutre¹, Bruno Arfib², Pierre Rochette², Jean-Michel Claverie³, Patricia Bonin⁴, Chantal Abergel⁵

Affiliations

¹ Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory (IGS), Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS UMR 7256 (IMM FR 3479), Marseille, France.
² Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, CEREGE UM34, ECCOREV, Aix en Provence, France.
³ Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory (IGS), Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS UMR 7256 (IMM FR 3479), Marseille, France Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM), Marseille, France jean-michel.claverie@univ-amu.fr chantal.abergel@igs.cnrs-mrs.fr.
⁴ Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO), Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS/INSU, IRD, UM 110, Marseille, France.
⁵ Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory (IGS), Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS UMR 7256 (IMM FR 3479), Marseille, France jean-michel.claverie@univ-amu.fr chantal.abergel@igs.cnrs-mrs.fr.

Abstract

Marseilleviridae is a rapidly expanding family of Acanthamoeba-infecting large DNA viruses distributed worldwide. We report here the complete 349-kbp genome sequence of Port-Miou virus, which is surprisingly close to that of Lausannevirus (isolated from the Seine River upstream from Paris, France), despite the strong dissimilarities of their sampling locations.