A Novel Anelloviridae Species Detected in Tadarida brasiliensis Bats: First Sequence of a Chiropteran Anellovirus

Samuel Paulo Cibulski; Thais Fumaco Teixeira; Francisco Esmaile de Sales Lima; Helton Fernandes do Santos; Ana Claudia Franco; Paulo Michel Roehe

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01028-14

A Novel Anelloviridae Species Detected in Tadarida brasiliensis Bats: First Sequence of a Chiropteran Anellovirus

Genome Announc. 2014 Oct 30;2(5):e01028-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01028-14.

Authors

Samuel Paulo Cibulski, Thais Fumaco Teixeira, Francisco Esmaile de Sales Lima¹, Helton Fernandes do Santos, Ana Claudia Franco¹, Paulo Michel Roehe²

Affiliations

¹ Virology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Basic Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
² proehe@gmail.com.

Abstract

Using metagenomic approaches, we identified a novel Torque teno virus from Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) (TT-TbV). The TT-TbV genome and deduced protein sequences share extremely low identity with known anelloviruses. Due to a high degree of phylogenetic divergence, such putative virus could not be allocated into any Anelloviridae genera.