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From: "Belinda Sauro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: contagiousness of FELV and other thoughts.../strain
> Is it a big secret, some of us like to see things with their own
> eyes?
Here are a few references to get you started:
Hardy WD Jr, Old LJ, Hess PW, et al: Horizontal transmission of feline
leukaemia virus. Nature 244:266, 1973
These two explain how subgroups are determined:
Sarma PS, Log T: Subgroup classification of feline leukemia and sarcoma
viruses by viral interference
and neutralization tests. Virology 54:160, 1973
Jarrett 0, Hardy WD Jr, Golder MC, Hay D: The frequency of occurrence of
feline leukaernia virus
subgroups in cats. Int J Cancer 21:334, 1978
These explain how subgroup C evolves:
Brojatsch J, Kristal BS, Viglianti GA, et al: Feline leukemia virus subgroup
C phenotype evolves
through distinct alterations near the N-terminus of the envelope surface
glycoprotein.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89:8457, 1992
Benveniste RE, Sherr CJ, Todaro GJ: Evolution of type C viral genes: Origin
of feline leukemia virus. Science 190:886, 1975
Benveniste RE, Todaro GJ: Multiple divergent cop� ies of endogenous C-type
virogenes in rnammalian
cells. Nature 252:170, 1974
Benveniste RE, Todaro GJ: Evolution of C-type viral genes: Inheritance of
exogenously acquired viral
genes. Nature 252:456, 1974
Todaro GJ, Benveniste RE, Sherwin SA, Sherr EJ: MAC-1, a new genetically
transmitted type C virus of primates: Low frequency activation from
stumptail monkey cell cultures. Cell 3:775, 1978
Chen-Hang, M.K. Bechtel, Shi Yan, A. Phipps, L.E Mathes, K.A. Hayes, Roy
Burman, H. Chen, Y. Shi. Pathogenicity induced by feline leukemia virus,
rickard strain, subgroup A plasmid DNA (pFRA). Journal of Virology. 1998,
72:9, pp. 7048-7056.
If you need more let me know. I have about 1,600.
Ong.