Completion of the Tula hantavirus genome sequence: Properties of the L segment and heterogeneity found in the 3' termini of S and L genome RNAs

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2615-2622

  Kukkonen, Sami K J ^a   Vaheri, Antti ^a   Plyusnin, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; HANTAVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENOME;

HANTAVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0031766984     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-79-11-2615     Document Type: Article

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