Why genes overlap in viruses
Open Access
- 7 July 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 277 (1701) , 3809-3817
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1052
Abstract
The genomes of most virus species have overlapping genes—two or more proteins coded for by the same nucleotide sequence. Several explanations have been proposed for the evolution of this phenomenon...Keywords
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