Myxoma virus is a poxvirus naturally found in two American leporid (rabbit) species
(Sylvilagus brasiliensis and Sylvilagus bachmani) in which it causes an innocuous localised …

Vertebrate pests cost Australia at least $1 billion annually in lost agricultural production and
environmental damage. The spectacular success of myxomatosis in the 1950s and more …

Myxoma virus (MYXV) is the type species of the Leporipoxviruses, a genus of
Chordopoxvirinae, double stranded DNA viruses, whose members infect leporids and …

The attenuation of myxoma virus (MYXV) following its introduction as a biological control into
the European rabbit populations of Australia and Europe is the canonical study of the …

To characterize the ongoing evolution of myxoma virus in Australian rabbits, we used
experimental infections of laboratory rabbits to determine the virulence and disease …

The co-evolution of myxoma virus (MYXV) and the European rabbit occurred independently
in Australia and Europe from different progenitor viruses. Although this is the canonical study …

Rabbit IL-4 was expressed in the virulent standard laboratory strain (SLS) and the
attenuated Uriarra (Ur) strain of myxoma virus with the aim of creating a Th2 cytokine …

The pathogenesis of two Californian strains of myxoma virus (MSW and MSD) was
examined in European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) that were either susceptible to …

The epidemiology of myxoma virus was studied by serology and molecular analysis of
restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) in genomic DNA. 159 isolates of …

H. Tyndale-Biscoeand LA Hinds 508 Wildlife Research sites within the myxoma genome that
could be used to generate recombinant viruses expressing foreign genes (Jackson and …