Cloning and nucleotide sequence of retroposons specific to hominoid primates derived from an endogenous retrovirus (HERV-K)

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 595-601

  Kim, Heui Soo ^a   Takenaka, Osamu ^b   Crow, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GORILLA GORILLA; HYLOBATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 0033541602     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922299311123     Document Type: Article

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