Publication Date:
1979-04-20
Description:
A retrovirus previously isolated from a tumored Russell's viper is shown by molecular hybridization to be an endogenous virus of this reptilian species. Radio-immunologic techniques revealed that the viper retrovirus is immunologically and, hence, evolutionarily related to endogenous type D retorviruses of Old World primates. These findings extend the number of vertebrate classes possessing endogenous retroviruses and suggest that type D retroviruses may even be more widely distributed in nature than type C retroviruses.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Andersen, P R -- Barbacid, M -- Tronick, S R -- Clark, H F -- Aaronson, S A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1979 Apr 20;204(4390):318-21.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/219480" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antigens, Viral/analysis
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Base Sequence
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*Biological Evolution
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*Genes, Viral
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Nucleic Acid Hybridization
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Primates/*microbiology
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Retroviridae/*genetics/immunology
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Snakes/genetics/*microbiology
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Viral Proteins/immunology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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