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Detection of a gypsy-like sequence in the genome of the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché 1835).
Parasitology research - 1 Jan 2007
Dahl A, Krämer F, Schnieder T
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The gypsy virus of Drosophila melanogaster is the first identified retrovirus of insects. Its infectious properties have been reported, and it is able to cause diverse mutations of the phenotype in the fruit fly. As a typical endogenous retrovirus, it is transmitted vertically as part of the host genome, but horizontal transmission has also been shown for the D. melanogaster gypsy virus. Using polymerase chain...
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