The genome of Diabrotica undecimpunctata virus 2 (DuV2), a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus identified from the southern corn root- worm transcriptome, comprises 5,313 nucleotides, including a short poly(A) tail. The two open reading frames encode a nonstructural polyprotein (p156) and a putative capsid protein (p25)

Bonning, Bryony C.

Darlington, Molly

Liu, Sijun

Valencia-Jiménez, Arnubio

Vélez, Ana M.

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Diabrotica undecimpunctata virus 2, a Novel Small RNA Virus 
Discovered from Southern Corn Rootworm, Diabrotica 
undecimpunctata howardi Barber (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) 
Sijun Liu 
Arnubio Valencia-Jiménez 
Molly Darlington 
Ana M. Vélez 
Bryony C. Bonning 
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Diabrotica undecimpunctata virus 2, a Novel Small RNA Virus
Discovered from Southern Corn Rootworm, Diabrotica
undecimpunctata howardi Barber (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Sijun Liu,a Arnubio Valencia-Jiménez,b,c Molly Darlington,c Ana M. Vélez,c Bryony C. Bonningd
aDepartment of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
bDepartamento de Producción Agropecuaria, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia
cDepartment of Entomology, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
dDepartment of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
ABSTRACT The genome of Diabrotica undecimpunctata virus 2 (DuV2), a putative
positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus identified from the southern corn root-
worm transcriptome, comprises 5,313 nucleotides, including a short poly(A) tail. The
two open reading frames encode a nonstructural polyprotein (p156) and a putative
capsid protein (p25).
The southern corn rootworm (SCR), Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber, isone of three corn rootworm species that cause significant damage to agricultural
and horticultural crops (1). Several small RNA viruses have been identified from the
western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (2–4), but only one has been
described from SCR to date (5). Here, we report on the genome of a second RNA virus
identified from the transcriptome of SCR.
Eggs, larvae (first, second, and third instar), pupae, and adult (male and female) SCR
were supplied by Crop Characteristics (Farmington, MN). The RNeasy minikit (Qiagen,
Valencia, CA, USA) was used for isolation of total RNA from three biological replicates
of 100 eggs, 50 first-instar larvae, 5 each of second- and third-instar larvae, 1 pupa, 1
adult female, and 1 adult male. cDNA libraries were constructed using the NEBNext
Ultra RNA library prep kit for Illumina (NEB) for each stage-specific sample with poly(A)
selection and paired-end sequencing with 150-nucleotide (nt) reads conducted on a
HiSeq 2500 platform (Illumina, San Diego, CA). One or two replicate sequence data sets
from each developmental stage were used for virus sequence discovery (5).
The Trinity assembler v2.6.6 (6) was used for assembly of high-quality reads. Default
parameters were used for all software unless otherwise noted. A putative viral contig,
with a short poly(A) tail, has 5,312 nt with a nucleotide composition of 37% GC
content. A total of 29,036 and 29,694 reads from two first-instar replicate data sets
(comprising 50.7 million and 48.1 million reads and quality scores of 37.5 and 37.6,
respectively) mapped to the viral contig with coverages of 819.8- and 838.3-fold,
respectively. The virus is provisionally named Diabrotica undecimpunctata virus 2
(DuV2). Sequences derived from DuV2 were observed in transcriptome data sets from
all developmental stages of SCR. The near-full-length sequences were assembled from
first-instar larvae, suggesting increased abundance and active replication of DuV2 in
larvae relative to other developmental stages. The 5= coding sequence located between
nt 156 and 4286 encodes a putative nonstructural protein of 1,376 amino acids (aa)
(156.1 kDa, p156), while the more 3= sequence between nt 4366 and 5025 encodes a
putative structural protein with 219 aa (25 kDa, p25). A conserved protein domain
search revealed that p156 contains three conserved domains, two overlapping viral
helicase domains (NCBI accession no. pfam01443, aa 598 to 826; cd17914, aa 593 to
Citation Liu S, Valencia-Jiménez A, Darlington
M, Vélez AM, Bonning BC. 2020. Diabrotica
undecimpunctata virus 2, a novel small RNA
virus discovered from southern corn rootworm,
Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Microbiol Resour
Announc 9:e00380-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/
MRA.00380-20.
Editor Kenneth M. Stedman, Portland State
University
Copyright © 2020 Liu et al. This is an open-
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International license.
Address correspondence to Bryony C. Bonning,
bbonning@ufl.edu.
Received 10 April 2020
Accepted 28 May 2020
Published 25 June 2020
GENOME SEQUENCES
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FIG 1 Phylogenetic analysis of DuV2 putative nonstructural protein p156 and putative structural protein p25. The replication-associated p156 is
homologous to proteins from viruses with various hosts, including plants, fungi, insects, and hepatitis E-like viruses. Sequences with similarity to the
capsid protein p25 were identified from viruses isolated from arthropods, although p25 also has a plant viral coat protein TMV domain. Viral proteins
used for construction of the phylogenetic tree were selected from BLASTp analyses. Sequences were aligned with MAFFT v7.4.07 (using the AUTO
strategy), and the maximum likelihood (ML) method was used for construction of the phylogenetic tree. ModelFinder implemented in IQ-TREE was
used to identify the best partitioning scheme and models. ML analysis was performed using IQ-TREE with 10,000 ultrafast bootstrap replicates (10).
Interactive Tree of Life (http://itol.embl.de) was used for visualization and annotation. The viruses and associated NCBI genome accession numbers
are Adelphocoris suturalis virus, YP_009336480.1; Agaricus bisporus virus 8, AQM49930.1; Agaricus bisporus virus 13, AQM49941.1; Bactrocera oleae,
XP_014085601.1; Bat bastrovirus, AWV67082.1; Beet necrotic yellow vein virus, ACA63016.1; Beet soil-borne mosaic virus, YP_009513207.1; Beihai
charybdis crab virus 1, YP_009333243.1; Burdock mottle virus, YP_008219063.1; Chara australis virus, AEJ33768.1 and AEJ33771.1; Culex pipiens
associated Tunisia virus, YP_009553258.1; Goji berry chlorosis virus, AYO99569.1; Hepatitis E virus, BAO47889.1; Hubei beny-like virus 1, APG77690.1;
Hubei virga-like virus 2, YP_009337413.1; Hubei virga-like virus 11, AVK59472.1 and YP_009337245.1; Lentinula edodes ssRNA mycovirus, BAS04359.1;
Mangifera indica latent virus, AMQ23297.1; Megastigmus ssRNA virus, QDZ71187.1; Red clover RNA virus 1, AVD98637.1; Riboviria sp. QDH86483.1; Rice
stripe necrosis virus, QAR21011.1; Rodent hepevirus, AVW79978.1; Sclerotium rolfsii beny-like virus 1, AZF86092.1; Wenling thamnaconus septentrionalis
hepevirus, AVM87557.1; Wheat stripe mosaic virus, AYD38100.1; and Zeugodacus cucurbitae; XP_011177481.1.
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726) (7), and one RNA-dependent RNA polymerase domain (RdRP_2; pfam00978). A
Tomato mosaic virus coat protein domain (TMV_coat domain pfam00721) was identified
in protein p25, supporting annotation as a capsid protein.
The highest BLASTp score for p156 (8) was Hubei beny-like virus 1 (GenBank
accession no. KX883789.1), an RNA virus isolated from dipteran insects (9) with 76%
sequence coverage and 49% amino acid identity. Proteins similar to p156 included
those from viruses of various host species (including fungi and plants) and soil samples
(Riboviria sp.) (Fig. 1). BLASTp analysis for p25 identified the putative capsid protein of
Beihai charybdis crab virus 1 (GenBank accession no. YP_009333243.1), which has a
genomic structure similar to that of DuV2.
Data availability. The genome sequence of DuV2 is available in GenBank under
accession no. MN646771. The raw reads for SRA accession no. SRX8018653 to
SRX8018656 are available at BioProject no. PRJNA615920.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This research was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture,
Hatch project IOW05450; State of Iowa funds; University of Nebraska—Lincoln funds;
the 2016 DuPont Young Professor Grant awarded to A. M. Vélez; and the University of
Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
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