Retroviral oligonucleotide distributions correlate with biased nucleotide compositions of retrovirus sequences, suggesting a duplicative stepwise molecular evolution

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 214-225

  Laprevotte, Ivan ^a   Brouillet, Sophie ^b   Terzian, Christophe ^b   Hénaut, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Computer assisted analysis; Core consensus; Cryptic simplicity; Nucleotide composition; Retrovirus nucleotide sequence; Slippage; Stepwise duplicative molecular evolution; Symmetry; Tandem repeat; TG CT excess

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROVIRUS; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROVIRIDAE; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0031047665     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006138     Document Type: Article

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