Complete nucleotide sequence and transcriptional analysis of the snakehead fish retrovirus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3606-3616

  Hart, Douglas ^a   Nicolas Frerichs, G ^b   Rambaut, Andrew ^c   Onions, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; FISH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 9344239877     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.6.3606-3616.1996     Document Type: Article

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