Year  Event  Reference
1873

First microscopic examination of fowlpox-infected chicken cells, description of cytoplasmic inclusion bodies

 Bollinger O (1873) Arch Patholog Anat Physiol Klin Med 58:349-361
1902

Propagation in embryonated chicken eggs

Centanni E (1902) Zbl Bakt I Orig 31:145-152,

182-201
1928 Protection of chickens from fowlpox using live pigeonpox virus Zwick W, et al. (1930) World’s Poultry Congress 4:410-419

1931

 

 Cultivation of Fowl-Pox virus on the chorioallantoic membrane of chick embryos Woodruff and Goodpasture (1931) Am J Pathol 1931 May; 7(3): 209–222
1956 Propagation in tyrpsinized chick embryo fibroblasts Koehler H, et al. (1956) Zbl Bakt I Orig 166:454
1963 Use of cell culture propagated fowl and pigeon poxviruses for vaccination of chickens Bengelsdorff HJ (1963) Deutsch Tieraerzt
Wschft 70:322-326
1966 Attenuation of wild-type fowlpox HP-1 by embryo and tissue culture passage Mayr A, Malicki K (1966) Zbl Vetmed 13:1-13
1986

First fowlpox virus DNA sequence

Boyle D B, Coupar B E (1986) J Gen Virol

67:1591-1600
1988

First recombinant fowlpox for use in poultry

 Taylor J, et al. (1988) Vaccine 6:504-508

1988

First use of fowlpox virus as non-replicating vector for use in mammals

Taylor J, et al. (1988) Vaccine 6:497-503
2000

First complete genome sequence published

Afonso CL, et al. (2000) J Virol 74:3815-3831