Recombination in hepatitis c virus: Identification of four novel naturally occurring inter-subtype recombinants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Shi, Weifeng ^a,e   Freitas, Ines T ^a   Zhu, Chaodong ^b   Zheng, Wei ^b,c,d   Hall, William W ^a   Higgins, Desmond G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NS5B GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 84864249998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041997     Document Type: Article

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