Expansion of a Unique Region in the Marek's Disease Virus Genome Occurs Concomitantly with Attenuation but Is Not Sufficient to Cause Attenuation

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 733-740

  Silva, R F ^a   Reddy, S M ^a,b   Lupiani, B ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AVIAN LYMPHOMATOSIS HERPETOVIRUS; BIRD DISEASE; CELL CULTURE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID VECTOR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; MAREK DISEASE VIRUS RMD5; MAREK DISEASE VIRUS RMD5(9-132); MAREK DISEASE VIRUS RMD5(DELTA 132)A; MAREK DISEASE VIRUS RMD5(DELTA 132)B; MAREK DISEASE VIRUS RMD5(REV9-132); MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS ATTENUATION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS TYPING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DNA, VIRAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 2, GALLID; MAREK DISEASE; POULTRY DISEASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, VIRAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0346057827     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.2.733-740.2004     Document Type: Article

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