RNA virus

RNA virus
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RNA virus
An RNA virus is a virus that either uses RNA as its genetic material, or whose genetic material passes through an RNA intermediate during replication.

RNA Viruses
1. Negative-stranded RNA viruses: genome consists of one or more molecules of single-stranded "antisense" RNA Examples: ...

RNA viruses rapidly mutate. 10 billion HIV-1 virions are generated daily, with a rate giving one mutation for each new genome of 9,2000 nucleotides per replication cycle.

An rna virus infection of rhesus, vervet, and squirrel monkeys transmissible to man.
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an animal RNA virus that replicates itself through a DNA intermediate
Source: Jenkins, John B. 1990. Human Genetics, 2nd Edition. New York: Harper & Row
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HIV is an enveloped RNA virus: As HIV buds out of the host cell during replication, it acquires a phospholipid envelope. Protruding from the envelope are peg-like structures that the viral RNA encodes.

Family of enveloped RNA viruses, members of the Rhabdoviridae; inducing diseases with vesicules on epithelia as main characteristic lesions ...

A member of a class of RNA viruses that utilizes the enzyme reverse transcriptase to reverse copy its genome into a DNA intermediate, which integrates into the hostcell chromosome.

Mullers ratchet in an RNA virus
In this paper Lin Chao propagated 20 lineages of the RNA virus, phi 6. This virus was chosen for two reasons. One, it is asexual.

RNA virus that encode the enzyme reverse transcriptase so that their RNA can be transcribed into DNA in the host cell; modified retroviruses are used as vectors to introduce genes (or portions thereof) of interest into eukaryotic cells.

(reh-troh-vy-rus) [L. turning back]
An RNA virus that reproduces by transcribing its RNA into DNA and then inserting the DNA into a cellular chromosome; an important class of cancer-causing viruses.
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We also have RNA viruses: influenza; measles; mumps; corona viruses also cause colds; hepatitis A and HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) that causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

I am referring to viruses, which are particles of nucleic acids contained by a capsule, generally made of proteins, although some RNA viruses, for example some parasitic particles of plants, are uncovered or not contained by a capsid.

of an organism, virus, etc, cloned into individual vector molecules for subsequent selection and amplification. The DNA fragments are usually very small in size compared with the genome. Such libraries are cDNA libraries when prepared from RNA ...

See also: Virus, RNA, Trans, Cells, DNA