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Wild-type measles viruses with non-standard genome lengths.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Bankamp Bettina, Liu Chunyu, Rivailler Pierre, Bera Jayati, Shrivastava Susmita, Kirkness Ewen F, Bellini William J, Rota Paul A
Abstract excerpt
The length of the single stranded, negative sense RNA genome of measles virus (MeV) is highly conserved at 15,894 nucleotides (nt). MeVs can be grouped into 24 genotypes based on the highly variable 450 nucleotides coding for the carboxyl-terminus of the nucleocapsid protein (N-450). Here, we report the genomic sequences of 2 wild-type viral isolates of genotype D4 with genome lengths of 15,900 nt. Both genomes...
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