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Gypsy endogenous retrovirus maintains potential infectivity in several species of Drosophilids
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Background: Sequences homologous to the gypsy retroelement from Drosophila melanogaster are widely distributed among drosophilids. The structure of gypsy includes an open reading frame resembling the retroviral gene env, which is responsible for the infectious properties of retroviruses.
Results: In this study we report molecular and phylogeny analysis of the complete env gene from ten species of the obscura group of the genus Drosophila and one species from the genus Scaptomyza.
Conclusion: The results indicate that in most cases env sequences could produce a functional Env protein and therefore maintain the infectious capability of gypsy in these species.
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/1471-2148-8-302
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- BioMed Central
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- BMC Evolutionary Biology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 8
- Article number:
- 302
- Publication date:
- 2008-10-31
- Acceptance date:
- 2008-10-31
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1471-2148
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English
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- Llorens et al
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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- © 2008 Llorens et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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