Boudicca, a retrovirus-like long terminal repeat retrotransposon from the genome of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6153-6166

  Copeland, Claudia S ^a,b   Brindley, Paul J ^a,f   Heyers, Oliver ^b   Michael, Scott F ^a   Johnston, David A ^c   Williams, David L ^d   Ivens, Alasdair C ^e   Kalinna, Bernd H ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CYSTINE; DNA; GAG PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; INTEGRASE; RETROVIRUS LIKE POLYPROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOINFORMATICS; BOUDICCA GENE; CERCARIA; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; CSRN1 GENE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GYPSY GENE; KABUKI GENE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPOROCYST; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TY3 GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, HELMINTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0038027288     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.11.6153-6166.2003     Document Type: Article

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