Dear David,
I would like to draw your attention to the work of Dr.
A.L. Wang; She has done an awful lot on virusses of Giardia. A few
examples:
Yu DC, Wang AL and Wang CC
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy,
University of California, San Francisco 94143-0446, USA.
Amplification, expression, and packaging of a foreign gene by giardiavirus
in Giardia lamblia.
Journal of Virology 1996 Dec;70(12):8752-7
TI - Virus-mediated expression of firefly luciferase in the parasitic
protozoan Giardia lamblia.
SO - Molecular & Cellular Biology 1995 Sep;15(9):4867-72
TI - Sequences at four termini of the giardiavirus double-stranded RNA.
SO - Gene 1995 May 26;158(1):129-31
TI - Maturation of giardiavirus capsid protein involves posttranslational
proteolytic processing by a cysteine protease.
SO - Journal of Virology 1995 May;69(5):2825-30
TI - Expression of the giardiavirus putative capsid gene in the
baculovirus system.
SO - Experimental Parasitology 1995 Mar;80(2):342-4
TI - Giardiavirus-resistant Giardia lamblia lacks a virus receptor on the
cell membrane surface.
SO - Journal of Virology 1994 Mar;68(3):1426-31
TI - Giardiavirus double-stranded RNA genome encodes a capsid polypeptide
and a gag-pol-like fusion protein by a translation frameshift.
SO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America 1993 Sep 15;90(18):8595-9
TI - Viruses of the protozoa. [Review] [43 refs]
SO - Annual Review of Microbiology 1991;45:251-63
TI - The course of giardiavirus infection in the Giardia lamblia
trophozoites.
SO - Experimental Parasitology 1991 Nov;73(4):413-23
