The mismatched nucleotides encoded in vaccinia virus flip-and-flop hairpin telomeres serve an essential role in virion maturation

• Mira M. Shenouda,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Ryan S. Noyce,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Stephen Z. Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Jun Li Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Yi-Chan Lin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Nicole A. Favis,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

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• Megan A. Desaulniers,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

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• David H. Evans

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: devans@ualberta.ca

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5871-299X

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