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Virus Research

Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2008, Pages 299-303
Virus Research

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F gene recombination between genotype II and VII Newcastle disease virus

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Abstract

A velogenic Newcastle disease virus (NDV) strain, designated as SRZ03, was isolated from an egg layer flock with NDV vaccine immunization failure in China in 2003. Recombination was found in the F gene of SRZ03. Complete genome sequences analysis indicated that the N-terminal of SRZ03 F gene originated from a genotype II NDV strain, whereas the C-terminal of F gene and the rest of the genes originated from a prevalent velogenic genotype VII NDV strain. It provides us valuable information for understanding the recombination of nonsegmented negative-sense RNA viruses.

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Acknowledgements

This study was funded by Project for Science and Technology Development of Shandong Province (030317), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China program (2006BAD06A04), National Basic Research Program (973 Program) of China (2005CB523002), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (031020101) and Hundreds of Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences. We thank Shandong Agriculture University for invaluable contributions for this study. We also thank Huai-ying Xu, Ye-feng He and

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