Snakehead vesiculovirus Genome sequencing and assembly. Snakehead vesiculovirus

In the present report, a vesiculovirus (named as SHVV) was isolated from diseased hybrid snakehead fish. The SHVV shared 94% nucleotide sequence identity at the genomic level with Siniperca chuatsi rhabdovirus (SCRV) which infected Mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi). We showed that SHVV was able to replicate and proliferate very well in SSN-1 cells which were original from striped snakehead fish (Channa striatus). Furthermore, Mandarin fish was susceptible to SHVV by bath exposure as well as by intraperitoneal injection.