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Systemic iridovirus from threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus represents a new megalocytivirus species (family Iridoviridae).
Diseases of aquatic organisms - 17 Feb 2012
Waltzek Thomas B, Marty Gary D, Alfaro Michael E, Bennett William R, Garver Kyle A, Haulena Martin, Weber E Scott, Hedrick Ronald P
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Megalocytiviruses have been associated with epizootics resulting in significant economic losses in public aquaria and food-fish and ornamental fish industries, as well as threatening wild fish stocks. The present report describes characteristics of the first megalocytivirus from a wild temperate North American fish, the threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus. Moribund and dead fish sampled after transfer...
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