Nucleotide sequence analysis of Triatoma virus shows that it is a member of a novel group of insect RNA viruses

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1149-1154

  Czibener, Cecilia ^a,b   La Torre, Jose L ^a   Muscio, Oscar A ^c   Ugalde, Rodolfo A ^b   Scodeller, Eduardo A ^a,d  

^a Centro de Virologia Animal   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^c Cetro de Parasitos y Vectores   (Argentina)

^d Laboratorio de Reproduccion y Lactancia Mendoza   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA HELICASE; VIRUS ENZYME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; INSECT VIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRIATOMA VIRUS; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALIA; CRICKET PARALYSIS VIRUS; DROSOPHILA C VIRUS; HIMETOBI P VIRUS; INSECTA; MIRIDAE; PICORNAVIRIDAE; PLAUTIA STALI; PLAUTIA STALI INTESTINE VIRUS; RHOPALOSIPHUM; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA VIRUS;

EID: 0034067350     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-81-4-1149     Document Type: Article

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