Dear Authors: the major observation in your paper is the characterization of a non-essential viral gene that has already been described to be so by others: Dunn W, Chou C, Li H, Hai R, Patterson D, Stolc V, Zhu H, Liu F. 2003. Functional profiling of a human cytomegalovirus genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:14223-8. Is it possible that you didn't reference this paper because you didn't know about it?
Virology Journal
critical missing reference?
22 September 2006
Dear Authors: the major observation in your paper is the characterization of a non-essential viral gene that has already been described to be so by others: Dunn W, Chou C, Li H, Hai R, Patterson D, Stolc V, Zhu H, Liu F. 2003. Functional profiling of a human cytomegalovirus genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:14223-8. Is it possible that you didn't reference this paper because you didn't know about it?
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