Molecular Characterization of Endogenous Viral Genes of the Avian Leukosis Virus Family in an Experimental Population of Brown-Egg Layers

Poultry Science

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 605-614

  Gorbovitskaia, M ^a   Coville, J L ^a   Tixier Boichard, M ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Endogenous viral genes; Layer; Polymerase chain reaction; Polymorphism; Restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AVIAN LEUKOSIS ONCOVIRUS; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

ANIMALS; AVIAN LEUKOSIS VIRUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

EID: 0032040451     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ps/77.4.605     Document Type: Article

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