Biased nucleotide composition of the genome of HERV-K related endogenous retroviruses and its evolutionary implications

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 102-111

  Zsiros J ^a   Jebbink, M F ^a   Lukashov, V V ^a   Voute P A ^a   Berkhout, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

HERV K10 family; Human endogenous retroviruses; Mutational bias; Nucleotide composition; Retrovirus evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROVIRUS;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV-1; HIV-1 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0032930365     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006437     Document Type: Article

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