Sequence analysis and organization of the Neodiprion abietis nucleopolyhedrovirus genome

Journal of Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 6952-6963

  Duffy, Simon P ^a   Young, Aaron M ^a   Morin, Benoit ^b   Lucarotti, Christopher J ^b   Koop, Ben F ^a   Levin, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; BRO GENE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HYMENOPTERA; IE 1 GENE; LEF 3 GENE; LEPIDOPTERA; NEODIPRION ABIETIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; GENES, VIRAL; MOTHS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

CULEX NIGRIPALPUS NPV; DIPRIONIDAE; DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; NEODIPRION ABIETIS; NEODIPRION ABIETIS NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; NEODIPRION LECONTEI; NEODIPRION SERTIFER; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SYMPHYTA;

EID: 33745777380     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00187-06     Document Type: Article

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