TY - JOUR
T1 - A novel statovirus identified in fecal samples from wild geladas in the Ethiopian highlands
AU - Schneider-Crease, India A.
AU - Chiou, Kenneth L.
AU - Moya, Isabella L.
AU - Lemma, Alemayehu
AU - Ayele, Ferewihot
AU - Haile, Abebaw Azanaw
AU - Kebede, Fanuel
AU - Abebe, Belayneh
AU - Bergman, Thore J.
AU - Beehner, Jacinta C.
AU - Lu, Amy
AU - Lund, Michael C.
AU - Custer, Joy M.
AU - Kraberger, Simona
AU - Snyder-Mackler, Noah
AU - Varsani, Arvind
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - We present a novel statovirus in geladas (Theropithecus gelada), graminivorous primates endemic to the Ethiopian highlands. Using a high-throughput sequencing approach, we identified contiguous sequences in feces from two adult female geladas in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia, that share similarities to statoviruses. Our phylogenetic analysis of the whole genome, as well as the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) and capsid protein (CP) amino acid sequences, revealed that the gelada statoviruses cluster with those from other primates (laboratory populations of Macaca nemestrina and Macaca mulatta). As the first report of statovirus in wild primates, this finding contributes to our understanding of the phylogenetic and geographic distribution of statoviruses and their hosts.
AB - We present a novel statovirus in geladas (Theropithecus gelada), graminivorous primates endemic to the Ethiopian highlands. Using a high-throughput sequencing approach, we identified contiguous sequences in feces from two adult female geladas in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia, that share similarities to statoviruses. Our phylogenetic analysis of the whole genome, as well as the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) and capsid protein (CP) amino acid sequences, revealed that the gelada statoviruses cluster with those from other primates (laboratory populations of Macaca nemestrina and Macaca mulatta). As the first report of statovirus in wild primates, this finding contributes to our understanding of the phylogenetic and geographic distribution of statoviruses and their hosts.
KW - Ethiopia
KW - Geladas
KW - Nonhuman primates
KW - Statovirus
KW - Theropithecus gelada
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85140392282
U2 - 10.1007/s00705-022-05588-3
DO - 10.1007/s00705-022-05588-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 36269418
AN - SCOPUS:85140392282
SN - 0304-8608
VL - 167
SP - 2709
EP - 2713
JO - Archives of Virology
JF - Archives of Virology
IS - 12
ER -