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Continuity of the DsRNA Genome of Bluetongue Virus

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Journal Curr Microbiol
Specialty Microbiology
Date 2013 Jan 23
PMID 23338144
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Authors
N M Foster
M A Alders
T E Walton
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Abstract

The duplex RNA genome of bluetongue virus, extracted under acidic conditions with sodium dodecyl sulfate and phenol, is an unfragmented continuous structure. Most genomes appeared as a rosette with 10 loops (genes) emanating from a central crescent- or doughnutshaped area. The genome has a mean length of ca. 10 μm which corresponds to a molecular weight of ca. 23 million.

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