Viroids proper can be distinguished from hammerhead viroids and satellite RNAs through their dinucleotide composition

Archives of Virology

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1775-1783

  Gast, F U ^a   Spieker, R L ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

VIROIDS;

EID: 0029803124     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01718300     Document Type: Article

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