The AU-Rich RNA Recombination Hot Spot Sequence of Brome Mosaic Virus Is Functional in Tombusviruses: Implications for the Mechanism of RNA Recombination

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2288-2300

  Shapka, Natalia ^a   Nagy, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; MOSAIC VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA RECOMBINATION; RNA VIRUS; TOBACCO; VIRAL PLANT DISEASE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BROMOVIRUS; GC RICH SEQUENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, VIRAL; TOBACCO; TOMBUSVIRUS;

EID: 1242274560     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.5.2288-2300.2004     Document Type: Article

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