Naturally occurring deletion mutants are parasitic genotypes in a wild- type nucleopolyhedrovirus population of Spodoptera exigua

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4372-4377

  Muñoz, Delia ^a   Castillejo, Juan I ^a   Caballero, Primitivo ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

GENOTYPE; PARASITE; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; DELETION MUTANT; GENOTYPE; LD 50; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VIRUS STRAIN;

ARBOVIRUS; CYPOVIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0344784403     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4372-4377.1998     Document Type: Article

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