Differences in HERV-K LTR insertions in orthologous loci of humans and great apes

Gene

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 265-277

  Lebedev, Yuri B ^a   Belonovitch, Oksana S ^a   Zybrova, Natalia V ^a   Khil, Paul P ^a   Kurdyukov, Sergey G ^a   Vinogradova, Tatyana V ^a   Hunsmann, Gerhard ^b   Sverdlov, Eugene D ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

HERV K; HML 2; Human endogenous retroviruses; Human genome; LTR; Primate evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COSMID; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; DNA; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; PRIMATES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0034682079     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00062-7     Document Type: Article

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