An Evolutionarily Young Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Endogenous Retrovirus Identified from Next Generation Sequence Data

• Main Authors: Tsangaras, Kyriakos, Mayer, Jens, Alquezar-Planas, David E., Greenwood, Alex D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Freie Universität Berlin 2015
• Subjects: polar bear; Ursus; Ursidinae; retrovirus; endogenous retrovirus; next generation sequencing; genomics; phylogenetics; 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften630 Landwirtschaft; Gibbon; Ursus arctos; Ursus maritimus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-20198; https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/16012

Transcriptome analysis of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) tissues identified sequences with similarity to Porcine Endogenous Retroviruses (PERV). Based on these sequences, four proviral copies and 15 solo long terminal repeats (LTRs) of a newly described endogenous retrovirus were characterized from th...