The evolution of genome compression and genomic novelty in RNA viruses

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1496-1504

  Belshaw, Robert ^a   Pybus, Oliver G ^a   Rambaut, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; VIRAL GENETICS;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, OVERLAPPING; GENOME, VIRAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA VIRUSES;

RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 34948894065     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6305707     Document Type: Article

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