ORIGINS AND EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF RETROVIRUSES

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 1-30

  Doolittle, R F ^a   Feng, D F ^a   Johnson, M S ^a   McClure, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DELTARETROVIRUS; EVOLUTION; HIV; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHYLOGENY; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

EID: 0024633943     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/416128     Document Type: Article

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