Retroviruses and transposons. Wandering retroviruses?
Recent studies of genetically unstable strains of Drosophila suggest that retroviruses are not confined to vertebrates and indicate how they might be derived from transposable elements.
Finnegan
D J
DJ
Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK.
D000818:Animals; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics / Q000821:virology*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D010802:Phylogeny; D012190:Retroviridae / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013045:Species Specificity; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000821:virology
D004251:DNA Transposable Elements