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Small RNA Viruses Co-infecting the Pine Emperor Moth (Nudaurelia cytherea capensis)

Don Hendry

Department of Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 6140

Larvae of the pine emperor moth, Nudaurelia cytherea capensis, naturally infected with Nudaurelia virus (NV), contained a second serologically unrelated virus which we have called Nudaurelia virus (NV). NV had a buoyant density of 1.285 g/ml in CsCl and yielded a single major polypeptide of 65000 daltons on gel electrophoresis. The particles of NV were morphologically distinguishable from those of Nudaurelia viruses described by others, and tryptic peptide analyses indicated that NV protein was distinct from that of NV and NV. Both NV and NV contained a small stable fraction of particles with buoyant densities of about 1.33 g/ml.

Keywords: insect viruses, Nudaurelia and viruses, RNA viruses, small

Present address: Biophysics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, 1525 Linden Drive, Madison, Wis. 53706, U.S.A.

Received 20 June 1984; accepted 31 October 1984.