Gene conversion and purifying selection of a placenta-specific ERV-V envelope gene during simian evolution

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Kjeldbjerg, Anders L ^a   Villesen, Palle ^a   Aagaard, Lars ^a   Pedersen, Finn Skou ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABOON; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ENVELOPE GENE; GENE CONVERSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLACENTA; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; PROVIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME 19; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIROLOGY;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; PAPIO; PRIMATES; SIMIAE; STREPSIRHINI;

VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLACENTA; PRIMATES; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 53949090991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-266     Document Type: Article

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