An env-like protein encoded by a Drosophila retroelement: Evidence that gypsy is an infectious retrovirus

Genes and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 17, 1994, Pages 2046-2057

  Song, Sun U ^a   Gerasimova, Tatiana ^a   Kurkulos, Maryellen ^a   Boeke, Jef D ^a   Corces, Victor G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENVELOPE PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVELOPE GENE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TRANSFORMATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0027992609     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.8.17.2046     Document Type: Article

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