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THE Berry–Dedrick transformation1 is known as the first instance of what is called genetic interaction between animal viruses, but the investigation of this phenomenon has been restricted to a combination of active fibroma and heat-killed myxoma, except for some studies on recombination of the influenza group2,3. In a previous paper4, a new example of viral transformation was demonstrated using active ectromelia and heat-inactivated vaccinia. The present investigation was undertaken to see if the same phenomena could occur between the other viruses classified in the pox group.
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HANAFUSA, H., HANAFUSA, T. & KAMAHORA, J. Transformations of Myxoma into Vaccinia or Ectromelia Virus in Tissue Culture. Nature 184, 1152–1153 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841152a0
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