Ancient invasion of an extinct gammaretrovirus in cetaceans

Virology

Volumn 441, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-69

  Wang, Lina ^a   Yin, Qiuyuan ^a   He, Guimei ^a   Rossiter, Stephen J ^b   Holmes, Edward C ^c,d   Cui, Jie ^c  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cetaceans; Endogenous gammaretrovirus; Molecular dating; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CETACEA; DATA MINING; ENDOGENOUS VIRUS; EVOLUTION; EXTANT SPECIES; EXTINCT SPECIES; GENOME; HOST; KILLER WHALE; MAMMAL; MARINE SPECIES; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CETACEA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, VIRAL; GAMMARETROVIRUS; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

CETACEA; GAMMARETROVIRUS; MAMMALIA; ORCINUS ORCA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 84877597071     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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