Title:

Determining the gene order of pox viruses with reference to variola major India-1967.

Table: The distrubution of seven genes from plastid-like DNA of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in poxviruses. Gene 21 codes for an ATP-dependent Clp proteinase, 1, 6, 11, 12 code for ribosomal protein which appear to be very close to DNA-directed RNA polymerase, and 20, 23 are hypothetical proteins which also appear to code for DNA-directed RNA polymerase. The results are based on blastp scores of >= 90. + indicates the presence of the translated product (could be putative) and - indicates that its absence (based on the NCBI database).

Organism	1	6	11	12	20	21	23
P.f. plastid	+(1)^a	+(1)	+(1)	+(1)	+(1)	+(1)	+(1)
Fowlpox	-	-	-	-	-	+(10)	-
Myxoma	-	-	-	-	-	+(1)	-
Fibroma	-	-	-	-	-	+(1)	-
Mollusc	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bangla	-	-	-	-	-	+(1)	-
India	-	-	-	-	-	+(1)	-
Garcia	-	-	-	-	-	+(2)	-
Copen	+(1)	-	-	-	-	+(2)	-
Ankara	-	-	-	-	-	+(1)	-
Tian	-	+(1)		-	-	+(1)	-
Melan	+(6)	+(6)	+(3)	+(1)	+(1)	+(72)	+(1)

^{a copy numbers

Abstract:

Gene order comparison of India-1967 with ten other pox viruses. (I will query the India-1967 against ten other pox virus stand alone databases and vice versa. So I will have 20 graphs).
List of proteins that tend to be conserved, duplicated, inverted and translocated.
Genome similarity of the 11 pox viruses analysed using the plot similarity program of GCG after the alignments were done in MAP (15 figures).

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