1. Antigenic and Molecular Analyses Reveal that the Equine Rotavirus Strain H-1 is Closely Related to Porcine, but not Equine, Rotaviruses: Interspecies Transmission from Pigs to Horses?

   • Max Ciarlet
   • Pavel Isa
   • Ferdinando Liprandi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 20

2. Sequence Analysis of the RNA Polymerase Gene of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype Asia1

   • George Manju
   • Venkataramanan Ramamurthy
   • Tosh Chakradhar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 26

3. Molluscum Contagiosum Virus Expresses Late Genes in Primary Human Fibroblasts but Does Not Produce Infectious Progeny

   • Joachim J. Bugert
   • Nadja Melquiot
   • Roland Kehm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 33

4. Identification of a Strong Promoter of Bacteriophage MB78 that Interacts with a Host Coded Factor and Regulates the Expression of a Structural Protein

   • Manzoor Ahmad Zargar
   • Deepti Chaturvedi
   • Maharani Chakravorty

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 45

5. Conserved and Non-Conserved Regions in the Sendai Virus Genome: Evolution of a Gene Possessing Overlapping Reading Frames

   • Yutaka Fujii
   • Katsuhiro Kiyotani
   • Takemasa Sakaguchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 52

6. Phylogenetic Analysis of Hop and Grapevine Isolates of Hop Stunt Viroid Supports a Grapevine Origin for Hop Stunt Disease

   • Teruo Sano
   • Rie Mimura
   • Kazusato Ohshima

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 59

7. Characterization of Peptide Substrates and Viral Enzyme that Affect the Cleavage Site Specificity of the Human Spumaretrovirus Proteinase

   • Klaus-Ingmar Pfrepper
   • Jennifer Reed
   • Rolf M. Flügel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 72

8. Expression of Immunogenic Puumala Virus Nucleocapsid Protein in Transgenic Tobacco and Potato Plants

   • Roland Kehm
   • Nurith J. Jakob
   • Gholamreza Darai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 83

9. Spike Gene Analysis of the DE072 Strain of Infectious Bronchitis Virus: Origin and Evolution

   • Chang-Won Lee
   • Mark W. Jackwood

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 91

10. The Hamster Polyomavirus—a Brief Review of Recent Knowledge*

    • Siegfried Scherneck
    • Rainer Ulrich
    • Jean Feunteun

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 101

11. Characterization of the Ecdysteroid UDP-Glucosyltransferase (egt) Gene of Anticarsia gemmatalis Nucleopolyhedrovirus

    • Júlio Carlyle Macedo Rodrigues
    • Marlinda Lobo De Souza
    • Bergmann Morais Ribeiro

    OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 112

12. Nucleotide Sequence and Transcriptional Analysis of a Putative Basic DNA-Binding Protein of Helicoverpa armigera Nucleopolyhedrovirus

    • Hualin Wang
    • Xinwen Chen
    • Zhihong Hu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 120