TY - DATA T1 - A New Species of Mesonivirus from the Northern Territory, Australia PY - 2014/03/26 AU - David Warrilow AU - Daniel Watterson AU - Roy A. Hall AU - Steven S. Davis AU - Richard Weir AU - Nina Kurucz AU - Peter Whelan AU - Richard Allcock AU - Sonja Hall-Mendelin AU - Caitlin A. O’Brien AU - Jody Hobson-Peters UR - https://plos.figshare.com/articles/dataset/_A_New_Species_of_Mesonivirus_from_the_Northern_Territory_Australia_/975140 DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0091103 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1436175 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1436176 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1436177 KW - ecology KW - Evolutionary ecology KW - microbial ecology KW - Evolutionary biology KW - Organismal evolution KW - Microbial evolution KW - Viral evolution KW - microbiology KW - Virology KW - Viral classification KW - Viral structure KW - organisms KW - animals KW - invertebrates KW - arthropoda KW - insects KW - mosquitoes KW - viruses KW - RNA viruses KW - epidemiology KW - disease vectors KW - Vector biology KW - Infectious diseases KW - mesonivirus N2 - Here we describe Casuarina virus (CASV), a new virus in the family Mesoniviridae. This is the first report of a mesonivirus in Australia, which extends the geographical range of this virus family to 3 continents. The virus was isolated in 2010 from Coquillettidia xanthogaster mosquitoes during surveillance in the suburbs of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory. Cryo-electron microscopy of the CASV virions revealed spherical particles of 65 nm in size with large club-shaped projections of approximately 15 nm in length. The new virus was most closely related to Alphamesonivirus 1, the only currently recognized species in the family. In 2013 a further 5 putative new mesonivirus species were described: Hana, Méno, Nsé, Moumo and Dak Nong viruses. The evolutionary distance between CASV and two of its closest relatives, Cavally and Hana viruses (Jones-Taylor-Thornton distance of 0.151 and 0.224, respectively), along with its isolation from a different genus of mosquitoes captured on a separate continent indicate that CASV is a new species. ER -