Assessment of virally vectored autoimmunity as a biocontrol strategy for cane toads

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Pallister, Jackie A ^a   Halliday, Damien C T ^a   Robinson, Anthony J ^a   Venables, Daryl ^a   Voysey, Rhonda D ^a   Boyle, Donna G ^a   Shanmuganathan, Thayalini ^a   Hardy, Christopher M ^a   Siddon, Nicole A ^a   Hyatt, Alex D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BULLFROG; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE DISRUPTION; HOST RANGE; IRIDOVIRUS; LARVAL STAGE; LIFE CYCLE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TADPOLE; TOAD; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

ANIMALIA; BOHLE IRIDOVIRUS; BUFO MARINUS; IRIDOVIRUS; METAMORPHA; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANAVIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BUFO MARINUS; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRUSES;

EID: 79551521101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014576     Document Type: Article

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