The novel genome organization of the insect picorna-like virus Drosophila C virus suggests this virus belongs to a previously undescribed virus family

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 191-203

  Johnson, Karyn N ^a,b   Christian, Peter D ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; HELICASE; METHIONINE; PROTEINASE; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CISTRON; DROSOPHILA; GENE STRUCTURE; MOSAIC VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PICORNAVIRUS; PLANT VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION;

ARBOVIRUS; COMOVIRUS; DROSOPHILA C VIRUS; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MIRIDAE; PICORNA; PICORNAVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES; SEQUIVIRUS;

EID: 0031964588     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-79-1-191     Document Type: Article

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