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Open AccessThe genome and occlusion bodies of marine Penaeus monodon nudivirus (PmNV, also known as MBV and PemoNPV) suggest that it should be assigned to a new nudivirus genus that is distinct from the terrestrial nudiviruses
Penaeus monodon nudivirus (PmNV) is the causative agent of spherical baculovirosis in shrimp (Penaeus monodon). This disease causes significant mortalities at the larval stage and early postlarval (PL) stage and ...
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A Review of the Major Penaeid Shrimp EST Studies and the Construction of a Shrimp Transcriptome Database Based on the ESTs from Four Penaeid Shrimp
By economic value, shrimp is currently the most important seafood commodity worldwide, and these animals are often the subject of scientific research in shrimp farming countries. High throughput methods, such ...
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Open AccessComparative analysis of differentially expressed genes in normal and white spot syndrome virus infected Penaeus monodon
White spot syndrome (WSS) is a viral disease that affects most of the commercially important shrimps and causes serious economic losses to the shrimp farming industry worldwide. However, little information is ...
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Gene Expression of Na+-K+-ATPase a1 and a3 Subunits in Gills of the Teleost Oreochromis mossambicus, Adapted to Different Environmental Salinities
The objective of the present study was to test the hypothesis that fish gills can express more than one isoform of the Na+-K+-ATPase a subunit responsible for ion regulation in seawater and freshwater environm...
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Isolation and identification of novel protein kinase genes from the round-spotted pufferfish(Tetraodon fluviatilis) genomic DNA
The round-spotted pufferfishTetraodon fluviatilis has a genome size of 380 Mb which is slightly smaller than that of another pufferfish,Fugu rubripes rubripes (Fugu). Due to their compact genome and small introns...