Characterization of the 1918 influenza virus polymerase genes

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7060, 2005, Pages 889-893

  Taubenberger, Jeffery K ^a   Reid, Ann H ^a,b   Lourens, Raina M ^a,b,c   Wang, Ruixue ^a   Jin, Guozhong ^a   Fanning, Thomas G ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DATA REDUCTION; ENZYMES; VIRUSES;

POLYMERASE GENES; POLYMERASE PROTEINS; VIRAL REPLICATION; VIRUS SEQUENCES;

GENES;

RNA POLYMERASE;

INFLUENZA;

ARCHAEAL VIRUS; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS ATTENUATION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

AVES; HUMAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS;

EID: 26444506691     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04230     Document Type: Article

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