The complete genome sequences of poxviruses isolated from a penguin and a pigeon in South Africa and comparison to other sequenced avipoxviruses

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Offerman, Kristy ^a   Carulei, Olivia ^a   van der Walt, Anelda P ^b   Douglass, Nicola ^a   Williamson, Anna Lise ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Avipoxvirus; Genome; Penguinpox; Pigeonpox; Poxvirus; Vectors

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CANARYPOX VIRUS; COLUMBA LIVIA; DNA SEQUENCE; FOWLPOX VIRUS; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC CODE; INVERTED TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PENGUIN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPHENISCUS DEMERSUS; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; AVIPOXVIRUS; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; POXVIRUS INFECTION; SOUTH AFRICA; SYNTENY; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

AVIPOXVIRUS; COLUMBA; POXVIRIDAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

ANIMALS; AVIPOXVIRUS; BIRD DISEASES; COLUMBIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPHENISCIDAE; SYNTENY;

EID: 84908345608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-463     Document Type: Article

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