Recombination in the 5' leader of murine leukemia virus is accurate and influenced by sequence identity with a strong bias toward the kissing-loop dimerization region

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 6967-6978

  Mikkelsen, Jacob Giehm ^a   Lund, Anders H ^a   Duch, Mogens ^a   Pedersen, Finn Skou ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA SEQUENCE; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

EID: 0031818283     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.9.6967-6978.1998     Document Type: Article

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