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Characterization of a novel strain of Botryosphaeria dothidea chrysovirus 1 from the apple white rot pathogen Botryosphaeria dothidea

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A novel strain of Botryosphaeria dothidea chrysovirus 1 was identified. It encodes a shortened RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and an elongated coat protein, and it might cause hypovirulence of the host fungal strain.

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Figure S1. Characterization of BdCV1-G1 RNA components, virion particles and structural proteins. (a) Agarose gel electrophoresis (1.0%) profile of dsRNA preparations extracted from mycelia of ZY7 and G1 after digestion with DNase I and S1 nuclease. Marker, Takara Wide Range DNA Marker (500-12,000 bp). (b) Agarose gel (1.0%) electrophoresis profile of BdCV1-G1 genomic dsRNA segments. dsRNAs were isolated from purified BdCV1-G1 virions (V-BdCV1-G1) and mycelia (M-BdCV1-G1). Marker, Takara Wide Range DNA Marker (500-12,000 bp). (c) Transmission electron micrograph of BdCV1-G1 virus particles from fungal strain G1. The particles were stained negatively with 2% uranyl acetate. (d) SDS-PAGE analysis of proteins purified from virion preparations from G1 mycelia (P-G1) and strain ZY7 (P-ZY7). Marker, protein molecular mass marker. * indicates the structural proteins of the virions. (e) Northern blot analysis of the BdCV1-G1 genomic dsRNAs. Probe sequences are listed in Table S1 (PDF 2001 kb)

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Figure S2. Multiple sequence alignments of the 5’- and 3’- terminal regions of the four dsRNAs of the BdCV1-G1 to BdCV1 consensus sequence (a) and phylogenetic analyses of RdRp of BdCV1-G1 and representative members of the families Chrysoviridae and Partitiviridae (b). Shading: black, 100% nucleotide sequence identity; gray, 60–80% nucleotide sequence identity. The BdCV1-conserved sequence in the 5’- and 3’- terminal regions is shown in the last line of the alignments, and star dots show identical nucleotides. The unrooted phylogenetic tree was constructed based on the neighbor-joining method using the program MEGA 5.0 with 1000 bootstrap replicates. The scale bar corresponded to the genetic distance (PDF 1107 kb)

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Figure S3. Pairwise alignment of the ORF1 deduced amino acid sequences of BdCV1-G1 and BdCV1. Black shading indicates identical amino acids (PDF 392 kb)

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Figure S4. Pairwise alignment of the ORF2 deduced amino acid sequences of BdCV1-G1 and BdCV1. Black shading indicates identical amino acids (PDF 367 kb)

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Ding, Z., Zhou, T. & Guo, LY. Characterization of a novel strain of Botryosphaeria dothidea chrysovirus 1 from the apple white rot pathogen Botryosphaeria dothidea . Arch Virol 162, 2097–2102 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-017-3320-6

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