Parallels among positive-strand RNA viruses, reverse-transcribing viruses and double-stranded RNA viruses

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 371-382

  Ahlquist, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GAG PROTEIN; GENOMIC RNA; MESSENGER RNA; POL PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ALPHA VIRUS; BROMOVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSAIC VIRUS; NODAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REOVIRUS; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA VIRUS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRION; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EVOLUTION; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ALPHAVIRUS; BROMOVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MIRIDAE; NODAVIRIDAE; REOVIRUS SP.; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 33646826348     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1389     Document Type: Review

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