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MORIAH LOUISE SZPARA

Pennsylvania State UniversityORCID 0000-0001-9859-1678Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:chicken / avian· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1 Organism:virus· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Alejandro Ortigas-VásqueziD· 2 shared DANIEL WAYNE RENNERiD· 2 shared David A. KennedyiD· 2 shared Susan J. BaigentiD· 2 shared Venugopal NairiD· 2 shared Yongxiu YaoiD· 2 shared Andrew F. ReadiD· 1 shared Chris D Bowen· 1 shared

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Recent·Most cited

MicrobiologyPLoS PathogensPeer-reviewedAug 25, 2025

High-Fidelity Long-Read Sequencing of an Avian Herpesvirus Reveals Extensive Intrapopulation Diversity in Tandem Repeat Regions

Alejandro Ortigas-Vásquez, Christopher D. Bowen, DANIEL WAYNE RENNER…·MORIAH LOUISE SZPARA

The paper uses long-read sequencing to analyze intrapopulation diversity in tandem repeat regions of Mareks disease virus strains, revealing phenotypic links to virulence and attenuation.

6 citations

chicken / avianlong-read sequencing

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MicrobiologyVirus EvolutionPeer-reviewedJan 1, 2024

Comparative Analysis of Multiple Consensus Genomes of the Same Strain of Marek's Disease Virus Reveals Intrastrain Variation

Alejandro Ortigas-Vásquez, Utsav Pandey, DANIEL WAYNE RENNER…·MORIAH LOUISE SZPARA

This study compares multiple consensus genomes of the same Marek's Disease Virus strain, revealing intrastrain variation and highlighting the need for multiple genomes to improve interstrain comparisons.

3 citations

viruswhole-genome sequencing

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