| a new densovirus isolated from the mosquito culex pipiens (diptera: culicidae). | we have isolated from a laboratory strain of culex pipiens in which abnormal larval mortality occurred a small icosahedral nonenveloped dna virus sharing the main biological and biophysical properties of densoviruses (dnvs). unlike dnvs isolated previously from aedes species, i.e. the aaednv and the aaldnv (afanasiev, b.n., galyov, e. e., buchatsky, l.p., kozlov, y.v., 1991. nucleotide sequence and genomic organization of aedes densonucleosis virus. virology 185, 323-336; boublik, y., jousset, f ... | 2000 | 10773314 |
| structure and expression strategy of the genome of culex pipiens densovirus, a mosquito densovirus with an ambisense organization. | the genome of all densoviruses (dnvs) so far isolated from mosquitoes or mosquito cell lines consists of a 4-kb single-stranded dna molecule with a monosense organization (genus brevidensovirus, subfamily densovirinae). we previously reported the isolation of a culex pipiens dnv (cpdnv) that differs significantly from brevidensoviruses by (i) having a approximately 6-kb genome, (ii) lacking sequence homology, and (iii) lacking antigenic cross-reactivity with brevidensovirus capsid polypeptides. ... | 2009 | 19386710 |