Establishing experimental systems for studying the replication biology of Providence virus

Providence virus (PrV) is a member of the Tetraviridae, a family of small, positive sense, single-stranded RNA viruses, which characteristically infect the midgut tissue of heliothine larvae. PrV is the only known tetravirus that replicates in cultured insect cells. The virus comprises a monopartite...

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Main Author: Walter, Cheryl Tracy
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Rhodes University 2009
Subjects:
DNA
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003987