Molecular Breeding of Porcine Circovirus Type 2 by Synthetic DNA Shuffling

Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is a small, non-enveloped, single-stranded DNA virus that causes disease in pigs and is an economically important pathogen affecting pig populations worldwide. PCV2 contains two major open reading frames (ORF): ORF1 encodes two replicase proteins and ORF2 encodes th...

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Main Author: Smith, Sara Marie
Other Authors: Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Tech 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76809
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06302011-083037/