title: Course and extent of variation of equine infectious anemia virus during parallel persistent infections.
abstract: Comparisons of peptide and oligonucleotide maps of glycoproteins and RNA from nine isolates of equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) that were generated during parallel infections of two Shetland ponies revealed that each isolate was structurally unique. Each EIAV isolate contained a unique subset of variant peptides, oligonucleotides, or both, indicating that structural variation in EIAV is a random and noncumulative process and that a large spectrum of possible EIAV variants can be generated in infected animals.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004859:Equine Infectious Anemia / Q000382:microbiology*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006736:Horses; D004860:Infectious Anemia Virus, Equine / Q000235:genetics*; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000032:analysis; D014357:Trypsin; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins; D014357:Trypsin