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. 1969 Dec;4(6):857–865. doi: 10.1128/jvi.4.6.857-865.1969

Characterization of a Ribonucleic Acid Polymerase Activity Associated with Purified Cytoplasmic Polyhedrosis Virus of the Silkworm Bombyx mori1

L J Lewandowski 1,2, J Kalmakoff 1, Y Tanada 1
PMCID: PMC375949  PMID: 16789118

Abstract

Purified cytoplasmic-polyhedrosis virus has been found to have associated with it a polymerase activity capable of catalyzing the synthesis of virus-specific, single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) from the double-stranded RNA genome.

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