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Transcriptome Analysis and Comparison of Marmota monax and Marmota himalayana.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Liu Yanan, Wang Baoju, Wang Lu, Vikash Vikash, Wang Qin, Roggendorf Michael, Lu Mengji, Yang Dongliang, Liu Jia
Abstract excerpt
The Eastern woodchuck (Marmota monax) is a classical animal model for studying hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in humans. Recently, we found that Marmota himalayana, an Asian animal species closely related to Marmota monax, is susceptible to woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) infection and can be used as a new mammalian model for HBV infection. However, the lack of genomic...
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