The Alphavirus 3'-nontranslated region: Size heterogeneity and arrangement of repeated sequence elements

Virology

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 100-108

  Pfeffer, Martin ^a   Kinney, Richard M ^b   Kaaden, Oskar Rüger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

3' nontranslated region (NTR); Alphavirus; Nucleotide sequence data; Repeated sequence elements

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID; VIRUS RNA;

ALPHA VIRUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINDBIS VIRUS; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ALPHAVIRUS;

EID: 0032484472     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8907     Document Type: Article

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