Many human endogenous retrovirus K (HERV-K) proviruses are unique to humans

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 861-868

  Barbulescu, Madalina ^a   Turner, Geoffrey ^a   Seaman, Michael I ^b   Deinard, Amos S ^b,c   Kidd, Kenneth K ^b   Lenz, Jack ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APE; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DIVERSITY; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; OPEN READING FRAME; PROBE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; HOMO; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; PAN (APE); PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; RNA VIRUSES; TUMOR VIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 33645522272     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80390-X     Document Type: Article

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