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Locations of sample collection sites. Samples were collected at nine distinct sites 402 around the world: France (Cimex lectularius, n=1), the UK (Cimex lectularius, n=3), Czechia (CR) 403 (Cimex lectularius, n=3), Rome-Italy (Cimex lectularius, n=3), Assisi-Italy (Cimex lectularius, n=3), 404 Madagascar (Cimex hemipterus, n=3), Ohio-USA (Cimex lectularius, n=3), and the King lab at 405 Mississippi State University-USA (Harlan Strain-USA Cimex lectularius, n=3). 406

Locations of sample collection sites. Samples were collected at nine distinct sites 402 around the world: France (Cimex lectularius, n=1), the UK (Cimex lectularius, n=3), Czechia (CR) 403 (Cimex lectularius, n=3), Rome-Italy (Cimex lectularius, n=3), Assisi-Italy (Cimex lectularius, n=3), 404 Madagascar (Cimex hemipterus, n=3), Ohio-USA (Cimex lectularius, n=3), and the King lab at 405 Mississippi State University-USA (Harlan Strain-USA Cimex lectularius, n=3). 406

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Bed bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae ) are a globally distributed hematophagous pest that routinely feed on humans. Unlike many blood-sucking arthropods, they have never been linked to disease transmission in a natural setting, and despite interest in their role as disease vectors, little is known about the viruses that bed bugs naturally harbor. Here, w...

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... is described as an unclassified -ssRNA virus (NCBI:txid1608072) with a 10,925 bp 178 monopartite genome. Our analyses show that it groups with the Rhabdoviridae family (Figure 179 4), consistent with the findings of Li et al. (2015). We detected Sbbv2 sequences in C. 180 hemipterus samples from Madagascar samples 1 and 3. ...
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... on feline calicivirus titer has been conducted, but there was no evidence that the 304 virus ever replicated inside of the bed bugs (Fisher et al., 2019). To investigate the effects that 305 ...
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... group together phylogenetically, there is higher mean evolutionary distance within these 369 samples than within the Cimex tenui-like virus 1 sequences from the rest of the world, which 370 include samples from France, Czechia and Madagascar, and include two different host species 371 (Tables 1 & 2). Previous studies of bed bug phylogeography have found low genetic diversity 372 within bed bug infestation sites, but high genetic diversity between infestation sites even of 373 relatively close proximity, which could be due to their dependence on humans for dispersal 374 (Fountain et al., 2014;Saenz et al., 2012). ...
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... is described as an unclassified -ssRNA virus (NCBI:txid1608072) with a 10,925 bp 179 monopartite genome. Our analyses show that it groups with the Rhabdoviridae family (Figure 180 4), consistent with the findings of Li et al. (2015). We detected Sbbv2 sequences in C. 181 hemipterus samples from Madagascar samples 1 and 3. ...
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... encoding for what we suspect is the rhabdovirus phosphoprotein (Supplementary Figure 186 1). Although the latter ORF did not have any significant BLAST hits or conserved domains, we 187 assume that it is the phosphoprotein based off synteny to other rhabdovirus genomes which 188 generally encode for five proteins in the following order: nucleoprotein, phosphoprotein, 189 matrix protein, glycoprotein, and large protein ( Walker et al., 2022). ...
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... group together phylogenetically, there is higher mean evolutionary distance within these 372 samples than within the Cimex tenui-like virus 1 sequences from the rest of the world, which 373 include samples from France, Czechia and Madagascar, and include two different host species 374 (Tables 1 & 2). Previous studies of bed bug phylogeography have found low genetic diversity 375 within bed bug infestation sites, but high genetic diversity between infestation sites even of 376 relatively close proximity, which could be due to their dependence on humans for dispersal 377 (Fountain et al., 2014;Saenz et al., 2012). ...

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