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Cellosaurus UM-BGE-2 (CVCL_Z333)

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Cell line name UM-BGE-2
Synonyms UMN-BGE-2; UMBGE-2; BGE-2
Accession CVCL_Z333
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: UM-BGE-2 (RRID:CVCL_Z333)
Comments Group: Insect cell line.
Virology: Susceptible to infection by Blattella germanica densovirus (BgDNV) (PubMed=16690920).
Derived from site: In situ; Whole embryo; UBERON=UBERON_0000922.
Species of origin Blattella germanica (German cockroach) (Blatta germanica) (NCBI Taxonomy: 6973)
Sex of cell Sex unspecified
Age at sampling Embryo 7D
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Publications

DOI=10.1016/B978-0-12-470270-7.50008-2
Kurtti T.J.
Phenotypic variations of cell lines from cockroach embryos.
(In) Invertebrate tissue culture: research applications; Maramorosch K. (eds.); pp.39-56; Academic Press; New York (1976)

PubMed=192663; DOI=10.1007/BF02615498
Kurtti T.J., Brooks M.A.
Isolation of cell lines from embryos of the cockroach, Blattella germanica.
In Vitro 13:11-17(1977)

PubMed=16593348; DOI=10.1073/pnas.80.15.4752
Koval T.M.
Intrinsic resistance to the lethal effects of X-irradiation in insect and arachnid cells.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80:4752-4755(1983)

PubMed=16690920; DOI=10.1099/vir.0.81638-0
Mukha D.V., Chumachenko A.G., Dykstra M.J., Kurtti T.J., Schal C.
Characterization of a new densovirus infecting the German cockroach, Blattella germanica.
J. Gen. Virol. 87:1567-1575(2006)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54990757
Entry history
Entry creation10-Apr-2015
Last entry update29-Jun-2023
Version number8