Phylogeny of a novel family of human endogenous retrovirus sequences, HERV-W, in humans and other primates

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 1529-1533

  Voisset, Cécile ^a   Blancher, Antoine ^b   Perron, Hervé ^a   Mandrand, Bernard ^a   Mallet, François ^a   Paranhos Baccalà, Gláucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; POL PROTEIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOUSE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA PROBES; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; GENE PRODUCTS, POL; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; RNA, VIRAL; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0033589707     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922299309810     Document Type: Article

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