The Footprint of Genome Architecture in the Largest Genome Expansion in RNA Viruses

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Lauber, Chris ^a   Goeman, Jelle J ^a   de Parquet, Marial Carmen ^b   Thi Nga, Phan ^c   Snijder, Eric J ^a   Morita, Kouichi ^b   Gorbalenya, Alexander E ^a,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EXORIBONUCLEASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME SIZE; NODAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; RNA VIRUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 84884757034     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003500     Document Type: Article

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