Article
Biased nucleotide composition of the genome of HERV-K related endogenous retroviruses and its evolutionary implications.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jan 1999
Zsíros J, Jebbink M F, Lukashov V V, Voûte P A, Berkhout B
Abstract excerpt
The human genome contains a large number of sequences that belong to the HERV-K family of human endogenous retroviruses. Most of these elements are likely remnants of ancient infections by ancestral exogenous retroviruses. To obtain further insight into the evolutionary history and molecular mech...
Topics
- Base Composition
- Base Sequence
- Computational Biology
- Conserved Sequence
- CpG Islands
- Endogenous Retroviruses
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genome, Viral
- HIV Reverse Transcriptase
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Open Reading Frames
- Sequence Analysis, DNA