title: Homologous Capsid Proteins Testify to the Common Ancestry of Retroviruses, Caulimoviruses, Pseudoviruses, and Metaviruses.
authors.affiliation: Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène Chez les Extrêmophiles, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France krupovic@pasteur.fr.
authors.forename: Mart
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5486-0098
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krupovic
authors.affiliation: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland USA.
authors.forename: Eugene V
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3943-8299
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Koonin
mesh_terms: D036022:Capsid Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010802:Phylogeny; D018626:Retroelements / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014780:Viruses / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D036022:Capsid Proteins; D018626:Retroelements
keywords: Caulimoviridae; Metaviridae; Pseudoviridae; Retroviridae; Ty3/Gypsy and Ty1/Copia LTR retrotransposons; nucleocapsid proteins; reverse-transcribing viruses; structural polyprotein Gag; virus evolution