Not so bad after all: Retroviruses and long terminal repeat retrotransposons as a source of new genes in vertebrates

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 312-323

  Naville, M ^a   Warren, I A ^a   Haftek Terreau, Z ^a   Chalopin, D ^a,b   Brunet, F ^a   Levin, P ^a   Galiana, D ^a   Volff, J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Exaptation; Molecular domestication; Neogene; Retroelement; Retrotransposon; Retrovirus

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; PROTEINASE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; RETROPOSON;

APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRIDAE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS GENE; ANIMAL; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; VERTEBRATE; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; HUMANS; RETROELEMENTS; RETROVIRIDAE; VERTEBRATES; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84961231227     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.02.001     Document Type: Review

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