@article{mbs:/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-73-9-2255, author = "Urquidi, Virginia and Bishop, David H. L.", title = "Non-random reassortment between the tripartite RNA genomes of La Crosse and snowshoe hare viruses", journal= "Journal of General Virology", year = "1992", volume = "73", number = "9", pages = "2255-2265", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-73-9-2255", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-73-9-2255", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1465-2099", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "The process of reassortment between the tripartite RNA genomes (segments designated L, M and S) of snowshoe hare and La Crosse bunyaviruses (Bunyaviridae) has been investigated by polymerase chain reaction analysis of > 250 progeny recovered at 72 h post-infection from dual wild-type virus infections involving high multiplicities (approximately 5) of each virus in a BHK-21 cell line. Statistical analysis of the data indicated that RNA segment reassortment was not random, and for these two viruses the data appeared to fit the hypothesis that there was a preference for homologous L-M and M-S associations among the progeny formed.", }