Gábor Magyar

• DVM, PhD, honorary professor
• head of department at Ministry of Agriculture of Hungary

Gyula Madarász (1858-1931) was an employee of the Hungarian National Museum between 1880 and 1915. During his first period of employment, he was also actively involved in field surveys in Hungary. He wrote and published the book “Birds of Hungary” in leaflet form. Later, his interest turned to the avifauna of non-European regions. He also took part...

The history of the Hungarian Institute of Ornithology is presented in this book, which was founded by Ottó Herman 130 years ago, in 1893. Changes in the institutional form, personnel, as well as main tasks are discussed in chronological order. Staff and volunteers of the institute are listed by name in separate chapters. Aquila, the periodical of t...

Magyar, G.: Biographies of ornithologists in Hungary—additions to the biographical lexicon of Hungarian ornithologists. A total of 455 biographies of those having contributed to Hungarian ornithology during their lives were published in an earlier publication by the author. In this paper an additional 32 biographies are given. Those foreign ornitho...

The book contains biographies of 455 deceased persons who did ornithological research in Hungary, published ornithological works in Hungarian or contributed to ornithological science in other ways.

Magyar, G. (2003): Famous persons commemorated in Hungarian bird names. Aquila 109-110, p. 9-22. In different languages, scinetific and vernacular bird names often refer to people. While more than 10% of French or English vernacular names of Western Palearctic birds commemorate scientists, explorers or other persons linked with the discovery of the...

A black egret, collected in Hungary on August 5, 1964. had been identified previously as a black morph Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)(Fábián & Sterbetz,1966: Aquila71-72, p. 99-112). The species of this specimen was later questioned by various authors based on the published measurements and photograph of the mounted specimen. After careful examina...

The RNA polymerase VP1 of IPNV (a bisegmented dsRNA containing virus) is present in the virion both as a free polypeptide and as a genome-linked protein (VPg). Virion VP1 primes viral RNA synthesis in vitro (P. Dobos, 1995, Virology 208, 19-25), and here we present data which suggest that protein-primed RNA synthesis may also take place in infectio...

The bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BHV-1) open reading frame (ORF) UL3.5 is similar to ORFs found in pseudorabies virus, infectious laryngotracheitis virus, equine herpesvirus type 1, and varicella zoster virus, but clearly absent from herpes simplex virus. The published sequence for this ORF predicts a 126-amino-acid (13.2 kDa) protein product with an...

The dsRNA containing birnavirus, infectious pancreatic necrosis virus, possesses a virion-associated RNA-dependent RNA polymerase which acts both as primer and as polymerase during in vitro RNA synthesis (P. Dobos, 1995, Virology 208, 19-25). Using [alpha 32P]GTP, we have radiolabeled virion RNA in vitro and found that after deproteinization most o...

The larger genome segment A of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) contains two open reading frames (ORFs): (i) the large ORF encodes a 106-kDa polyprotein (PP) (NH2-pVP2-NS-VP3-COOH) which is cotranslationally cleaved by the NS protease to generate the major capsid polypeptides VP2 and VP3; (ii) the second small ORF, which overlaps the 5'...

In order to study the molecular biology of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) replication, six different recombinant baculoviruses were constructed. The following four recombinants contained genome segment A-specific sequences; (i) AcPP contained the complete polyprotein coding region and Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf) cells infected by these...

The DNA of thirty-three Hungarian bovine herpesvirus isolates originating from cattle with various clinical symptoms were compared by restriction endonuclease analysis using HindIII, EcoRI and BstEII enzymes. The EcoRI and HindIII cleavage patterns were similar to those of isolates studied in other countries. Based on the cleavage patterns, the Hun...

The DNA of a bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) strain isolated from calf encephalitis in Hungary was analysed with restriction enzymes. The cleavage pattern of the encephalitis strain Na/67 differed from those of all the other Hungarian BHV-1 isolates investigated so far. The EcoRI and HindIII cleavage patterns of virus strain Na/67 were found to be sim...

Direct filter hybridization (DFH) was applied as a simple method of nucleic acid hybridization to diagnose bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) infection without previous purification of nucleic acids from the specimens. The DNA of BHV-1 was cleaved with the restriction endonuclease Pst I and randomly cloned into pKH47 plasmids. The clones were labelled wi...