The discovery of endogenous retroviruses

Retrovirology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Weiss, Robin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETROVIRUS VECTOR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS DNA;

AVIAN LEUKOSIS ONCOVIRUS; BIRD; EVOLUTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAMMAL; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; PROVIRUSES; RETROVIRIDAE; VIROLOGY;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33750214531     PISSN: 17424690     EISSN: 17424690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-3-67     Document Type: Review

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