Virus

Sarcoma Virus, Woolly Monkey

AMW:MICRO:040268

A species of GAMMARETROVIRUS producing tumors in primates. Originally isolated from a fibrosarcoma in a woolly monkey, WMSV is a replication-defective v-onc virus which carries the sis oncogene. In order to propagate, WMSV requires a replication-competent helper virus.

Microbiology biological

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Sarcoma Virus, Woolly Monkey has parent Gammaretrovirus

Sarcoma Virus, Woolly Monkey has parent Retroviruses, Simian

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