Cloning, sequencing and transcriptional analysis of the Choristoneura fumiferana entomopoxvirus spheroidin gene

Virus Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 143-154

  Li, Xing ^a,b   Barrett, John W ^a,b   Yuen, Leonard ^b   Arif, Basil M ^a,b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Choristoneura fumiferana entomopoxvirus; entomopoxvirus; spheroidin gene

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTOMOPOXVIRUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, VIRAL; ENTOMOPOXVIRINAE; GENES, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

AMSACTA; AMSACTA MOOREI; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA ENTOMOPOXVIRUS; MELOLONTHA MELOLONTHA; UNIDENTIFIED ENTOMOPOXVIRUS;

EID: 0030888819     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1702(96)01409-8     Document Type: Article

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