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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 83, Issue 5, Pages 2397-2403Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02189-08
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- Fundacion para el Estudio y Defensa de la Naturaleza y la Caza
- Fundacion Biodiversidad
- Laboratorios Syva [CC03-034]
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One of the best-studied examples of host-virus coevolution is the release of myxoma virus (MV) for biological control of European rabbits in Australia and Europe. To investigate the genetic basis of MV adaptation to its new host, we sequenced the genome of 6918, an attenuated Spanish field strain, and compared it with that of Lausanne, the strain originally released in Europe in 1952. Although isolated 43 years apart, the genomes were highly conserved (99.95% identical). Only 32 of the 159 MV predicted proteins revealed amino acid changes. Four genes (M009L, M036L, M135R, and M148R) in 6918 were disrupted by frameshift mutations.
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