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Sigma virus has a hereditary association with the Drosophila fly. This association, called “stabilized condition”, is regularly transmitted through maternal inheritance (L’Heritier, 1958; Brun, 1963). Diploid cell lines of Drosophila melanogaster, obtained by Echalier and Ohanessian (1969) were used to further investigate the relationships between the virus and its host cells. Sigma multiplication was previously observed in “primary” cultures of embryonic cells of Drosophila (Ohanessian and Echalier, 1967). Three aspects of virus multiplication in cell lines were studied: (a) virus multiplication for short periods; (b) virus persistance for periods exceeding one year; (c) virus multiplication in cell lines of different genotypes.
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Ohanessian, A. (1971). Sigma Virus Multiplication in Drosophila Cell Lines of Different Genotypes. In: Weiss, E. (eds) Arthropod Cell Cultures and Their Application to the Study of Viruses. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65224-0_38
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