Phylogeny of the Venezuelan arenaviruses

Virus Research

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 199-206

  Cajimat, Maria N B ^a   Fulhorst, Charles F ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Arenaviridae; Arenavirus; Guanarito virus; Pirital virus; RNA polymerase; Z protein

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARENAVIRUS; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARENAVIRUSES, NEW WORLD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VENEZUELA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ARENAVIRIDAE; ARENAVIRUS; GUANARITO VIRUS; PICHINDE VIRUS; PIRITAL VIRUS;

EID: 1842840105     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2004.01.032     Document Type: Article

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