“Ménage à Trois”: The evolutionary interplay between JSRV, enJSRVs and domestic sheep

Viruses

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4926-4945

  Armezzani, Alessia ^a,b   Varela, Mariana ^a   Spencer, Thomas E ^c   Palmarini, Massimo ^a   Arnaud, Frédérick ^d  

^a MRC UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW CENTRE FOR VIRUS RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University Lyon i   (France)

Author keywords

EnJSRV; JSRV; Placenta; Restriction factors; Retrovirus; Virus host co evolution

Indexed keywords

DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; GAG PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN; INTEGRASE; INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 2; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

DOMESTIC SHEEP; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST RESISTANCE; JAAGSIEKTE; JAAGSIEKTE SHEEP RETROVIRUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

JAAGSIEKTE SHEEP RETROVIRUS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; JAAGSIEKTE SHEEP RETROVIRUS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

EID: 84924872295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v6124926     Document Type: Review

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