Complete genomic sequence and taxonomic position of eel virus European X (EVEX), a rhabdovirus of European eel.

• Published in: Virus Research
• Main Authors: Galinier, Richard, van Beurden, Steven, Amilhat, Elsa, Castric, Jeannette, Schoehn, Guy, Verneau, Olivier, Fazio, Géraldine, Allienne, Jean-François, Engelsma, Marc, Sasal, Pierre, Faliex, Elisabeth
• Other Authors: Ecologie et évolution des interactions 2011-2014 (2EI), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unit of Virus Host Cell Interactions = Biologie structurale des interactions entre virus et cellule hôte (UVHCI), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-European Molecular Biology Laboratory Grenoble (EMBL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de biologie structurale (IBS - UMR 5075 ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 )-Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Grenoble (IRIG), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Biologie et écologie tropicale et méditerranéenne 2007-2010 (BETM), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de recherches insulaires et observatoire de l'environnement (CRIOBE)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: https://hal.science/halsde-00700373; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2012.02.020

International audience Eel virus European X (EVEX) was first isolated from diseased European eel Anguilla anguilla in Japan at the end of seventies. The virus was tentatively classified into the Rhabdoviridae family on the basis of morphology and serological cross reactivity. This family of viruses is organized into six genera and currently comprises approximately 200 members, many of which are still unassigned because of the lack of molecular data. This work presents the morphological, biochemical and genetic characterizations of EVEX, and proposes a taxonomic classification for this virus. We provide its complete genome sequence, plus a comprehensive sequence comparison between isolates from different geographical origins. The genome encodes the five classical structural proteins plus an overlapping open reading frame in the phosphoprotein gene, coding for a putative C protein. Phylogenic relationship with other rhabdoviruses indicates that EVEX is most closely related to the Vesiculovirus genus and shares the highest identity with trout rhabdovirus 903/87.