The fourth genus in the Orthomyxoviridae: Sequence analyses of two Thogoto virus polymerase proteins and comparison with influenza viruses

Virus Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 215-224

  Leahy, Michael B ^a   Dessens, Johannes T ^a   Weber, Friedemann ^b   Kochs, Georg ^b   Nuttall, Patricia A ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Orthomyxoviridae; PA polymerase; PB1 polymerase; Thogoto virus

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFLUENZA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CRICETINAE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; INFLUENZAVIRUS C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RNA REPLICASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THOGOTOVIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ACARI; DHORI VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZAVIRUS A; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; THOGOTO VIRUS; THOGOTOVIRUS;

EID: 0030805223     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1702(97)00072-5     Document Type: Article

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