The discovery, distribution and diversity of DNA viruses associated with <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> in Europe
Journal: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Year: 2020

Abstract Drosophila melanogaster is an important model for antiviral immunity in arthropods, but very few DNA viruses have been described from the family Drosophilidae. This deficiency limits our opportunity to use natural host-pathogen combinations in experimental studies, and may bias our understanding of the Drosophila virome. Here we report fourteen DNA viruses detected in a metagenomic analysis of approximately 6500 pool-sequenced Drosophila , sampled from 47 European locations between 2014