Human endogenous retrovirus K homologous sequences and their coding capacity in old world primates

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1870-1875

  Mayer, Jens ^a   Meese, Eckart ^a,b   Mueller Lantzsch, Nikolaus ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENE;

EID: 0031937624     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.3.1870-1875.1998     Document Type: Article

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