Unique genome organization of non-mammalian papillomaviruses provides insights into the evolution of viral early proteins.

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Unique genome organization of non-mammalian papillomaviruses provides insights into the evolution of viral early proteins.

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The family Papillomaviridae contains more than 320 papillomavirus types, with most having been identified as infecting skin and mucosal epithelium in mammalian hosts. To date, only nine non-mammalian papillomaviruses have been described from birds (n = 5), a fish (n = 1), a snake (n = 1), and turtles (n = 2). The identification of papillomaviruses in sauropsids and a sparid fish suggests that early ancestors of papillomaviruses were already infecting the earliest Euteleostomi. The Euteleostom...

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2017

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Van Doorslaer K / Ruoppolo V / Schmidt A / Lescroël A / Jongsomjit D / Elrod M / Kraberger S / Stainton D / Dugger KM / Ballard G / Ainley DG / Varsani A

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/15235

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avian / bird / evolution / papillomavirus / reptile / Biological sciences / Microbiology / Virology / Zoology / Animal cell and molecular biology

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