Newly identified families of human endogenous retroviruses [1]

Journal of Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 4640-4642

  Polavarapu, Nalini ^a   Bowen, Nathan J ^a   McDonald, John F ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

BINDING SITE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVOLUTION; GIBBON LEUKEMIA VIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LETTER; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPUMA VIRUS; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS MUTATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES;

EID: 33646203658     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.80.9.4640-4642.2006     Document Type: Letter

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