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| Title |
The Ozobranchus leech is a candidate mechanical vector for the fibropapilloma-associated turtle herpesvirus found latently infecting skin tumors on Hawaiian green turtles (Chelonia mydas)
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| Published in |
Virology, March 2004
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.virol.2003.12.026 |
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| Authors |
Rebecca J Greenblatt, Thierry M Work, George H Balazs, Claudia A Sutton, Rufina N Casey, James W Casey |
| Abstract |
Fibropapillomatosis (FP) of marine turtles is a neoplastic disease of ecological concern. A fibropapilloma-associated turtle herpesvirus (FPTHV) is consistently present, usually at loads exceeding one virus copy per tumor cell. DNA from an array of parasites of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) was examined with quantitative PCR (qPCR) to determine whether any carried viral loads are sufficient to implicate them as vectors for FPTHV. Marine leeches (Ozobranchus spp.) were found to carry high viral DNA loads; some samples approached 10 million copies per leech. Isopycnic sucrose density gradient/qPCR analysis confirmed that some of these copies were associated with particles of the density of enveloped viruses. The data implicate the marine leech Ozobranchus as a mechanical vector for FPTHV. Quantitative RT-PCR analysis of FPTHV gene expression indicated that most of the FPTHV copies in a fibropapilloma have restricted DNA polymerase expression, suggestive of latent infection. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 200 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 5 | 3% |
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| Japan | 2 | 1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Greece | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 183 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 39 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 15% |
| Researcher | 27 | 14% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 27 | 14% |
| Unknown | 36 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 88 | 44% |
| Environmental Science | 27 | 14% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 16 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 10 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 7% |
| Unknown | 38 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 March 2014.
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#8,533,995
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#3,591
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#22,398
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#63
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