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Frequency of spontaneous mutations in an avian hepadnavirus infection.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2001
Pult I, Abbott N, Zhang Y Y, Summers J
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we measured the frequency of revertants of a cytopathic strain of the duck hepatitis B virus that bears a single nucleotide substitution in the pre-S envelope protein open reading frame, resulting in the amino acid substitution G133E. Cytopathic virus mixed with known amounts of a genetically marked wild-type virus was injected into ducklings. Virus outgrowth was accompanied by a coselection of...
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