Comments on "The distribution of HIV-1 recombination breakpoints" by Jun Fan, Matteo Negroni, David L. Robertson

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 527-528

  Magiorkinis, Gkikas ^a   Paraskevis, Dimitrios ^a   Hatzakis, Angelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distribution; HIV 1; Recombination; Similarity

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV-1; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 50349086806     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2008.06.007     Document Type: Letter

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