Article
Virulence during Newcastle Disease Viruses Cross Species Adaptation.
Viruses - 15 Jan 2021
Afonso Claudio L
Abstract excerpt
The hypothesis that host adaptation in virulent Newcastle disease viruses (NDV) has been accompanied by virulence modulation is reviewed here. Historical records, experimental data, and phylogenetic analyses from available GenBank sequences suggest that currently circulating NDVs emerged in the 1920-1940's from low virulence viruses by mutation at the fusion protein cleavage site. These viruses later gave rise to...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Viral
- Genomics
- Host Adaptation
- Host Specificity
- Newcastle Disease
- Newcastle disease virus
- Phylogeny
- Virulence
- Virus Replication
