TY - JOUR
T1 - Viruses associated with Antarctic wildlife
T2 - From serology based detection to identification of genomes using high throughput sequencing
AU - Smeele, Zoe E.
AU - Ainley, David G.
AU - Varsani, Arvind
N1 - Funding Information: ZES is supported through startup funding awarded to AV from The Biodesign Institute and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, USA . DGA is supported by National Science Foundation grant PLR-1543541 . AV is supported with funds from The Biodesign Institute, Center of Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Science, Arizona State University, USA. Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - The Antarctic, sub-Antarctic islands and surrounding sea-ice provide a unique environment for the existence of organisms. Nonetheless, birds and seals of a variety of species inhabit them, particularly during their breeding seasons. Early research on Antarctic wildlife health, using serology-based assays, showed exposure to viruses in the families Birnaviridae, Flaviviridae, Herpesviridae, Orthomyxoviridae and Paramyxoviridae circulating in seals (Phocidae), penguins (Spheniscidae), petrels (Procellariidae) and skuas (Stercorariidae). It is only during the last decade or so that polymerase chain reaction-based assays have been used to characterize viruses associated with Antarctic animals. Furthermore, it is only during the last five years that full/whole genomes of viruses (adenoviruses, anelloviruses, orthomyxoviruses, a papillomavirus, paramyoviruses, polyomaviruses and a togavirus) have been sequenced using Sanger sequencing or high throughput sequencing (HTS) approaches. This review summaries the knowledge of animal Antarctic virology and discusses potential future directions with the advent of HTS in virus discovery and ecology.
AB - The Antarctic, sub-Antarctic islands and surrounding sea-ice provide a unique environment for the existence of organisms. Nonetheless, birds and seals of a variety of species inhabit them, particularly during their breeding seasons. Early research on Antarctic wildlife health, using serology-based assays, showed exposure to viruses in the families Birnaviridae, Flaviviridae, Herpesviridae, Orthomyxoviridae and Paramyxoviridae circulating in seals (Phocidae), penguins (Spheniscidae), petrels (Procellariidae) and skuas (Stercorariidae). It is only during the last decade or so that polymerase chain reaction-based assays have been used to characterize viruses associated with Antarctic animals. Furthermore, it is only during the last five years that full/whole genomes of viruses (adenoviruses, anelloviruses, orthomyxoviruses, a papillomavirus, paramyoviruses, polyomaviruses and a togavirus) have been sequenced using Sanger sequencing or high throughput sequencing (HTS) approaches. This review summaries the knowledge of animal Antarctic virology and discusses potential future directions with the advent of HTS in virus discovery and ecology.
KW - Antarctica
KW - Penguin
KW - Petrel
KW - Seal
KW - Sharp spined notothen
KW - Wildlife disease
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U2 - 10.1016/j.virusres.2017.10.017
DO - 10.1016/j.virusres.2017.10.017
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29111456
SN - 0168-1702
VL - 243
SP - 91
EP - 105
JO - Virus research
JF - Virus research
ER -