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Complete sequence determination of a novel reptile iridovirus isolated from soft-shelled turtle and evolutionary analysis of Iridoviridae

Youhua Huang1, Xiaohong Huang2, Hong Liu3, Jie Gong1, Zhengliang Ouyang1, Huachun Cui1, Jianhao Cao1, Yingtao Zhao4, Xiujie Wang4, Yulin Jiang3* and Qiwei Qin2*

1 State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, 135 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510275, PR China

2 Laboratory of Marine Biology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, PR China

3 Shenzhen Exit & Entry Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Shenzhen 518001, PR China

4 State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:224 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-224

Published: 14 May 2009

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Ancestor proteins of large DNA viruses that present or absent in STIV genome. In the STIV genome, only twenty putative protein products shared homology with the ancestral proteins of NCLDVs, including proteins involved in viral DNA replication, transcription, virion packaging and morphogenesis.

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