Grass carp reovirus (GCRV) poses great threat to the grass carp aquaculture industry and causes huge eco-nomic losses. Grass carp reovirus is the pathogen of this disease, which consists of three types, type Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ. GCRV-873 is the most well studied stain of type I GCRV, with its complete genome sequenced in the 1980s. It has a segmented double stranded RNA genome with 11 fragments, encoding 7 structural proteins. VP5 and VP7 proteins form virus capsid. In this study, the capsid protein VP7 (GenBank: AF403396) of GCRV-873 strain was expr...