Pathology, isolation and molecular characterisation of a ranavirus from the common midwife toad Alytes obstetricans on the Iberian Peninsula

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-104

  Balseiro, Ana ^a   Dalton, Kevin P ^b   Del Cerro, Ana ^a   Marquez, Isabel ^a   Cunningham, Andrew A ^c   Parra, Francisco ^b   Prieto, José M ^a   Casais R , ^a  

^a Área de Sistemas de Producción Animal   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alytes obstetricans; Common midwife toad; Immunohistochemistry; Pathology; Ranavirus; Virology

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

DISEASE SPREAD; DNA; INOCULATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; TOAD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; IRIDOVIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPAIN; TOAD; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RANAVIRUS; SPAIN; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ALYTES OBSTETRICANS; ANURA; EPITHELIOMA PAPULOSUM; IRIDOVIRUS; MIRIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RANAVIRUS;

EID: 65649154418     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02032     Document Type: Article

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