Why do RNA viruses recombine?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 617-626

  Simon Loriere, Etienne ^a   Holmes, Edward C ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; RNA RECOMBINATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA VIRUS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; SELECTION, GENETIC;

RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 79960425867     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2614     Document Type: Review

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