title: High C + G content in parapoxvirus DNA.
abstract: The DNAs of eight parapoxviruses (four stomatitis papulosa viruses isolated from infected calves, a pseudocowpox virus isolated from a teat lesion of an infected cow and three orf viruses, one isolated from an infected sheep and two isolated from human infections) were analysed in CsCl gradients. The mole % of G+C was calculated from the buoyant density and found to be approx. 63% for all virus isolates examined. Parapoxvirus DNA thus has by far the highest G+C content of all poxvirus DNAs so far examined.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D003596:Cytosine / Q000032:analysis; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis*; D006147:Guanine / Q000032:analysis; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009923:Orf virus / Q000032:analysis*; D011212:Poxviridae / Q000032:analysis*; D010285:Pseudocowpox Virus / Q000032:analysis*; D013280:Stomatitis / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D006147:Guanine; D003596:Cytosine