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Genomic variation of the fibropapilloma-associated marine turtle herpesvirus across seven geographic areas and three host species.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 2005
Greenblatt Rebecca J, Quackenbush Sandra L, Casey Rufina N, Rovnak Joel, Balazs George H, Work Thierry M, Casey James W, Sutton Claudia A
Abstract excerpt
Fibropapillomatosis (FP) of marine turtles is an emerging neoplastic disease associated with infection by a novel turtle herpesvirus, fibropapilloma-associated turtle herpesvirus (FPTHV). This report presents 23 kb of the genome of an FPTHV infecting a Hawaiian green turtle (Chelonia mydas). By sequence homology, the open reading frames in this contig correspond to herpes simplex virus genes UL23 through UL36....
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