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Effect of rearing at non-permissive temperature on silkworm larvae infected with temperature-sensitive lef-8 mutant of bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus.
Acta virologica - 1 Nov 1998
Shikata M, Nakagawa M, Sano Y, Matsumoto T, Hashimoto Y
Abstract excerpt
A temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant of bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV), ts-S1, contains a mutation in a putative RNA polymerase gene, which is involved in late viral gene expression. When 4th-instar silkworm larvae were infected with 1.0 x 10(5) TCID50 of ts-S1 per larva and reared at 33 degrees C, the titre of budded virus (BV) and number of occlusion bodies (OBs) in the haemolymph of the infected...
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