Establishment of a minigenome system for oropouche virus reveals the S genome segment to be significantly longer than reported previously

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 513-523

  Acrani, Gustavo Olszanski ^a,b   Tilston Lunel, Natasha L ^a,c   Spiegel, Martin ^d   Weidmann, Manfred ^d,e   Dilcher, Meik ^d   Da Silva, Daisy Elaine Andrade ^e   Nunes, Marcio R T ^e   Elliott, Richard M ^a  

^a MRC UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW CENTRE FOR VIRUS RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OROPOUCHE VIRUS; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA VIRUS; TRINIDADIAN; UNTRANSLATED REGION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LIKE AGENT; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

OROPOUCHE VIRUS; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84923675578     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000005     Document Type: Article

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