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Functional importance of deletion mutant genotypes in an insect nucleopolyhedrovirus population.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Aug 2005
Simón Oihane, Williams Trevor, López-Ferber Miguel, Caballero Primitivo
Abstract excerpt
A Nicaraguan isolate of a nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfNIC) that attacks the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, survives as a mixture of nine genotypes (SfNIC A to I) that all present genomic deletions, except variant B (complete genotype). Sequencing of cloned restriction fragments revealed that genotypic variants lack between 5 and 16 of the open reading frames present in a contiguous sequence of 18 kb of the...
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