Recombination in Enteroviruses Is a Biphasic Replicative Process Involving the Generation of Greater-than Genome Length 'Imprecise' Intermediates

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Lowry, Kym ^a   Woodman, Andrew ^a   Cook, Jonathan ^a   Evans, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA; CAPSID PROTEIN; NOCODAZOLE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TUBULIN MODULATOR; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROVIRUS; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN CELL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REVERSE GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAMSTER; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; TUMOR CELL LINE; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAPSID PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CRICETINAE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOCODAZOLE; POLIOVIRUS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SERIAL PASSAGE; TUBULIN MODULATORS; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84903480766     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004191     Document Type: Article

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