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Detection of different variants of Ostreid Herpesvirus 1 in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas between 2008 and 2010.
Virus research - 1 Sept 2011
Martenot Claire, Oden Elise, Travaillé Emmanuelle, Malas Jean-Paul, Houssin Maryline
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Since summer 2008, high mortality rates of young Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas have been recorded in association with the detection of the Ostreid Herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1). A new variant called μVar has been recently described, characterized mainly by 12 consecutive deletions followed by one deletion of an adenine in the C region. The purpose of this study is to characterize the genotype (variants or OsHV-1...
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