Article
Genetic characterization of a Marek’s disease virus strain isolated in Japan
2020-11-16
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background: </bold>Marek’s disease virus (MDV) causes malignant lymphomas in chickens (Marek’s disease, MD). MD is currently controlled by vaccination; however, MDV strains have a tendency to develop increased virulence. Distinct diversity and point mutations are present in the Meq proteins, the oncoproteins of MDV, suggesting that changes in protein function induced by amino acid...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4de54713-e2e4-5e1a-b9c3-7dc5c171a57a
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-44828/v2
