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SUBMITTER: He CQ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2953192 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
He Cheng-Qiang CQ Ding Nai-Zheng NZ He Mei M Li Shan-Ni SN Wang Xing-Ming XM He Hong-Bin HB Liu Xin-Fa XF Guo Hong-Shan HS
Journal of virology 20100811 21
Bluetongue (BT), caused by Bluetongue virus (BTV), is an economically important disease affecting sheep, deer, cattle, and goats. Since 1998, a series of BT outbreaks have spread across much of southern and central Europe. To study why the epidemiology of the virus happens to change, it is important to fully know the mechanisms resulting in its genetic diversity. Gene mutation and segment reassortment have been considered as the key forces driving the evolution of BTV. However, it is still unkno ...[more]