Forced retroevolution of an RNA bacteriophage

Virology

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 298-306

  Licis, Normunds ^a   Balklava, Zita ^a   Van Duin, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERTANT; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON;

MIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0034608225     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.2000.0327     Document Type: Article

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