Expression of the Drosophila retrovirus gypsy as ultrastructurally detectable particles in the ovaries of flies carrying a permissive flamenco allele

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2379-2388

  Lécher, Pierre ^a,c   Bucheton, Alain ^b   Pélisson, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c IUT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPRESSION; GERM LINE; HOMOZYGOTE; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROVIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

INVERTEBRATA; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0030931441     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-9-2379     Document Type: Article

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