Genomic evolution, patterns of global dissemination, and interspecies transmission of human and simian T-cell leukemia/lymphotropic viruses

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 525-540

  Pecon Slattery, Jill Pecon ^a   Franchini, Genoveffa ^b   Gessain, Antoine ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 2; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMIAN VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DELTARETROVIRUS INFECTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; HTLV-I INFECTIONS; HTLV-II INFECTIONS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2; HUMANS; MONKEY DISEASES; PHYLOGENY; SIMIAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1;

EID: 0345711455     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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