Complete Genome Sequence of the English Isolate of Rat Cytomegalovirus (Murid Herpesvirus 8)
- Ettinger, Jakob
- Geyer, Henriette
- Nitsche, Andreas
- Zimmermann, Albert
- Brune, Wolfram
- Sandford, Gordon R.
- Hayward, Gary S.
- Voigt, Sebastian
Publication date
December 2012
DOI Publisher
American Society for Microbiology Language
EnglishAbstract
The complete genome of the English isolate of rat cytomegalovirus (RCMV-E) was determined. RCMV-E has a 202,946-bp genome with noninverting repeats but without terminal repeats. Thus, it differs significantly in size and genomic arrangement from closely related rodent cytomegaloviruses (CMVs). To account for the differences between the rat CMV isolates of Maastricht and England, RCMV-E was classified as Murid herpesvirus 8 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
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