GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN MARINE TURTLE FIBROPAPILLOMATOSIS
| Autor: | Rebecca J. Greenblatt, Rufina N. Casey, Peter H. Dutton, Denise M. Parker, James W. Casey, Carlos E. Diez, Claudia A. Sutton, Judy St. Leger, George H. Balazs, Terry R. Spraker, Thierry M. Work |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Hawksbill turtle
Skin Neoplasms Geography General Veterinary Fibropapillomatosis Sequence analysis Ecology Zoology Geographic variation Fibroma Herpesviridae Infections General Medicine Biology Polymerase Chain Reaction Turtles law.invention Tumor Virus Infections Real-time polymerase chain reaction law Animals Animal Science and Zoology Turtle (robot) Polymerase Gene Herpesviridae Polymerase chain reaction |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. 36:527-530 |
| ISSN: | 1937-2825 1042-7260 |
| DOI: | 10.1638/04-051.1 |
| Popis: | We document three examples of fibropapillomatosis by histology, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), and sequence analysis from three different geographic areas. Tumors compatible in morphology with fibropapillomatosis were seen in green turtles from Puerto Rico and San Diego (California) and in a hybrid loggerhead/ hawksbill turtle from Florida Bay (Florida). Tumors were confirmed as fibropapillomas on histology, although severity of disease varied between cases. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analyses revealed infection with the fibropapilloma-associated turtle herpesvirus (FPTHV) in all cases, albeit at highly variable copy numbers per cell. Alignment of a portion of the polymerase gene from each fibropapilloma-associated turtle herpesvirus isolate demonstrated geographic variation in sequence. These cases illustrate geographic variation in both the pathology and the virology of fibropapillomatosis. |
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