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ArticleJournal of virology2026

Pantanal virophage: a new virophage species associated with a moumouvirus and a transpoviron, expanding the genus

Bruna Luiza de Azevedo, Nidia Esther Colquehuanca Arias, Talita Bastos Machado, João Pessoa Araújo Júnior, Ana Karoline da Nóbrega Nunes Alves, Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara, Frank O Aylward, Luiz Henrique Rosa, Rodrigo Araújo Lima Rodrigues, Jônatas Santos Abrahão

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Bruna Luiza de AzevedoLaboratório de Vírus, Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Nidia Esther Colquehuanca AriasLaboratório de Vírus, Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Talita Bastos MachadoLaboratório de Vírus, Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
João Pessoa Araújo JúniorLaboratório de Virologia, Departamento de Microbiologia e Imunologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil.
Ana Karoline da Nóbrega Nunes AlvesLaboratório de Vírus, Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Luiz Carlos Junior AlcantaraInstituto Rene Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz and Expanded Navigation for Intensive and Optimized Surveillance (NAVIO) Network, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Frank O AylwardDepartment of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1279-4050
Luiz Henrique RosaLaboratório de Microbiologia Polar e Conexões Tropicais, Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Rodrigo Araújo Lima RodriguesLaboratório de Vírus, Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-7148-4012
Jônatas Santos AbrahãoLaboratório de Vírus, Departamento de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-9420-1791

Funding

University of Washington Arboviral Research Network (UWARN)U01AI151698 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Michael Gale, PETER MACGARR RABINOWITZ · 2020 to 2026
$13.3M
Coevolutionary Dynamics and Gene Exchange Between Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses and EukaryotesR35GM147290 · NIGMS · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI Frank O'Neill Aylward · 2022 to 2026
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI151698NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM147290
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Abstract

Amoeba-infecting giant viruses, such as mimiviruses, challenged paradigms of virology since their discovery. Their extensive and complex genomes and particle structures can interact with virophages and transpovirons, revealing unique aspects of the viral ecology and evolution. Here, we describe the isolation of Pantanal virophage, a new virophage obtained from Brazilian pantanal biome. The virophage was found in association with moumouvirus pantanense and a transpoviron sequence. Sequencing and genomic analysis revealed that Pantanal virophage presents a 17,964 bp genome with 21 coding sequences, including two ORFans that code for proteins with completely unknown functions. Phylogeny showed that Pantanal virophage composes a divergent branch within virophages from

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AmoebaGiant VirusesVirophagesBrazilGenome, ViralOpen Reading FramesPhylogenySequence Analysis, DNAmoumouvirusesPantanalspeciesSputnikvirustaxonomytranspovironvirophage

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