Bioinformatic Characterization of Mosquito Viromes within the Eastern United States and Puerto Rico: Discovery of Novel Viruses

• DOI: 10.4137/ebo.s38518
• Publication Date: 2016-06-17T00:35:58Z
• Authors: Kenneth G. Frey; Tara Biser; Theron Hamilton; Carlos J. Santos; Guillermo Pimentel; Vishwesh P. Mokashi; Kimberly A. Bisho...
• Keywords: Human virome; Viral evolution

Mosquitoes are efficient, militarily relevant vectors of infectious disease pathogens, including many RNA viruses. The vast majority all viruses thought to be undiscovered. Accordingly, recent studies have shown that discovered in insects very divergent from known pathogens and them lack appropriate reference sequences the public databases. Given likely still undiscovered, environ mental sampling stands provide much needed samples as well genetic for comparison. In this study, we sought determine whether mosquitoes collected different sites (the Caribbean locations on US East Coast) could differentiated using metagenomic analysis viral fraction. We report here distinct virome profiles, even short distances apart. addition profiling previously these samples, detected a number been