Dataset: DNA sequences of viruses associated with copepods collected from the shoreside from Tampa Bay, Florida from 2004-2011 (Viruses in Copepods project)

Preliminary and in progressVersion 2013-11-5 (2013-11-05)Dataset Type:Unknown

Lead Principal Investigator: Mya Breitbart (University of South Florida)

Co-Principal Investigator: Ian Hewson (Cornell University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Danie Kinkade (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Discovery of viruses infecting marine Copepoda (Viruses in Copepods)

DNA sequence information of viruses associated with copepods (Acartia tonsa and Labidocera aestiva)

All sequence information associated with this study has been deposited into NCBI Genbank. The accession numbers for the two circoviruses detected are JF912805 and JQ837277. Additional metagenomic sequences have been deposited under accession nos. JY253391–JY253440).

All Quantitative PCR data obtained as part of this study has been published in peer-reviewed journals.

No environmental metadata was collected as part of this study.

Dunlap, D.S., T.F.F. Ng, K. Rosario, J.G. Barbosa, A.M. Greco, M. Breitbart, I. Hewson (2013). Molecular and microscopic evidence of viruses in marine copepods.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 110  1375.

Eaglesham JB, Hewson I (2013). Widespread detection of eukaryotic circular ssDNA viral genotypes in estuarine, coastal and open ocean net plankton.  Marine Ecology Progress Series, in press (doi: 10.3354/meps10575).


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