Identification of endogenous retroviral sequences based on modular organization: Proviral structure at the SSAV1 locus

Genomics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 52-61

  Blusch, Jürgen H ^a   Haltmeier, Manuela ^a,b   Frech, Kornelie ^a   Sander, Ingrid ^a   Leib Mösch, Christine ^a,b   Brack Werner, Ruth ^a   Werner, Thomas ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0031193599     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4790     Document Type: Article

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