Retrovirus recombination depends on the length of sequence identity and is not error prone

Journal of Virology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 2409-2414

  Zhang, Jiayou ^a   Temin, Howard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CROSSING OVER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

EID: 0028274130     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.4.2409-2414.1994     Document Type: Article

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