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Viruses > RNA Viruses > Retroviridae > Gammaretrovirus > Sarcoma Virus, Woolly Monkey
Viruses > Oncogenic Viruses > Retroviridae > Gammaretrovirus > Sarcoma Virus, Woolly Monkey
Viruses > RNA Viruses > Retroviridae > Retroviruses, Simian > Sarcoma Virus, Woolly Monkey
Viruses > Oncogenic Viruses > Retroviridae > Retroviruses, Simian > Sarcoma Virus, Woolly Monkey

Preferred term

Sarcoma Virus, Woolly Monkey  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Sarcoma Viruses, Simian
  • Sarcoma Virus, Simian
  • Simian Sarcoma Virus
  • Simian Sarcoma Viruses
  • Wooley monkey sarcoma virus
  • Woolly Monkey Virus

Note

  • infection: coordinate with RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS + TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2002 (1978); was SIMIAN SARCOMA VIRUSES 1978-93 (see under BUNYAVIRIDAE 1989-90, see under RETROVIRIDAE 1981-88, see under LEUKOVIRUSES 1978-80)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012842

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