Identification of an ancient endogenous retrovirus, predating the divergence of the placental mammals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1626, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Adam ^a   Nolan, Alison ^a   Watson, Jason ^a   Tristem, Michael ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genomics; Mammalian evolution; Mammalian wide interspersed repeat; Paleovirology; Retrovirus evolution; Selfish genetic elements

Indexed keywords

ARMS RACE; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MAMMAL; PALEOBIOLOGY; VIRUS;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MAMMAL; MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION; MAMMALIAN-WIDE INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEOVIROLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RETROVIRUS EVOLUTION; SELFISH GENETIC ELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIROLOGY;

GENOMICS; MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION; MAMMALIAN-WIDE INTERSPERSED REPEAT; PALEOVIROLOGY; RETROVIRUS EVOLUTION; SELFISH GENETIC ELEMENTS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENOME; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84898675328     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0503     Document Type: Article

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