Retroviral recombination: What drives the switch?

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 151-155

  Negroni, Matteo ^a   Buc, Henri ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; RETROVIRUS;

RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROVIRIDAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035259827     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35052098     Document Type: Review

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