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The End of a 60-year Riddle: Identification and Genomic Characterization of an Iridovirus, the Causative Agent of White Fat Cell Disease in Zooplankton

The planktonic freshwater crustacean of the genus Daphnia are a model system for biomedical research and, in particular, invertebrate-parasite interactions. Up until now, no virus has been characterized for this system. Here we report the discovery of an iridovirus as the causative agent of White Fa...

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Autores principales: Toenshoff, Elena R., Fields, Peter D., Bourgeois, Yann X., Ebert, Dieter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Genetics Society of America 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5873915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29487186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/g3.117.300429