title: Genome characterization of Long Island tick rhabdovirus, a new virus identified in Amblyomma americanum ticks.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Ticks are implicated as hosts to a wide range of animal and human pathogens. The full range of microbes harbored by ticks has not yet been fully explored.
  
  
  METHODS
  As part of a viral surveillance and discovery project in arthropods, we used unbiased high-throughput sequencing to examine viromes of ticks collected on Long Island, New York in 2013.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We detected and sequenced the complete genome of a novel rhabdovirus originating from a pool of Amblyomma americanum ticks. This virus, which we provisionally name Long Island tick rhabdovirus, is distantly related to Moussa virus from Africa.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Long Island tick rhabdovirus may represent a novel species within family Rhabdoviridae.
authors: Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, Room 1701, New York, NY 10032, USA. rt2249@cumc.columbia.edu.
authors: Rafal
authors: R
authors: Tokarz
authors: Stephen
authors: S
authors: Sameroff
authors: Maria Sanchez
authors: MS
authors: Leon
authors: Komal
authors: K
authors: Jain
authors: W Ian
authors: WI
authors: Lipkin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016679:Genome, Viral; D026863:Ixodidae / Q000821:virology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009518:New York; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D012209:Rhabdoviridae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral