RNA Structure Duplications and Flavivirus Host Adaptation

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 270-283

  Villordo, Sergio M ^a   Carballeda, Juan M ^a   Filomatori, Claudia V ^a   Gamarnik, Andrea V ^a  

^a FUNDACIÓN INSTITUTO LELOIR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dengue virus; Flaviviruses; Host adaptation; RNA virus evolution; SfRNAs; Viral RNA structures

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AEDES; CULEX; DENGUE VIRUS 2; DENGUE VIRUS 4; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STOP CODON; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; VIRUS GENOME;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAVIVIRUS; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84961217657     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2016.01.002     Document Type: Review

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