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

• Published in: Viruses
• Main Authors: Kyriakos Tsangaras, Jens Mayer, David Alquezar-Planas, Alex Greenwood
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
• Subjects: polar bear; Ursus; Ursidinae; retrovirus; endogenous retrovirus; next generation sequencing; genomics; phylogenetics; Gibbon; Ursus arctos; Ursus maritimus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/v7112927

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...