| poxvirus | Any virus of the family Poxviridae. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| poxvirus officinalis | <molecular biology, virology> DNA viruses used in several biotechnology applications, including expression vector systems. Because they can hold quite a lot of DNA, they can be used to make more than one protein at once in a cell, which can be useful for making proteins with more than one polypeptide chain. (14 Nov 1997) |