The retrotransposon Osvaldo from Drosophila buzzatii displays all structural features of a functional retrovirus

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 909-921

  Pantazidis, Alexandros ^a   Labrador, Mariano ^b   Fontdevila, Antonio ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Drosophila buzzatii; Gypsy; Insect retroviruses; LTR retrotransposons; Reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE STRUCTURE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

DNA VIRUSES; DROSOPHILA BUZZATII; DROSOPHILA KOEPFERAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0033010026     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026180     Document Type: Article

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