Morphology and Biochemical Characteristics of the Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus of Lymantria xylina Swinhoe
Abstract: ymantria xylina Swinhoe nuclear polyhedrcais virus (LxNPV)is a kind of multi-embeded baculovirus. Scanning electron microscope(SEM)showed that the LxNPV inclusion bodies were irregularpolyhedra with different sizes.The average diameter of the polyhedra was 1.40μm.A lot of rod-shapedvirions which had a mean size of 394×56nm were released from polyhedra when they were decomposed by alkali. The virus genome was a circular DNA macromolecule with lensth of 38.0μm.SDS-PAGE showed that polyhetlrin had only one ma...