Cloning and molecular characterization of the murine herpesvirus 68 genome Efstathiou, S. and Ho, Y. M. and Minson, A. C.,, 71, 1355-1364 (1990), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-71-6-1355, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 0022-1317, abstract= Murine herpesvirus 68 (MHV-68) is a naturally occurring herpesvirus of small free-living rodents. In order to facilitate the molecular characterization of the virus genome, a library of cloned restriction fragments has been produced and restriction enzyme cleavage maps deduced for the enzymes BamHI EcoRI and HindIII. The MHV-68 genome comprises a region of unique DNA of approximately 118 kbp which is flanked by variable numbers of a 1·23 kb repeat unit. The organization of the MHV-68 genome is, therefore, most similar to that of the lymphotropic γ2 group of herpesviruses which include herpesvirus saimiri and herpesvirus ateles., language=, type=