retravirus Biol.
(ˈrɛtrəvaɪərəs)
[mod.L., f. initial letters of reverse transcriptase (see transcriptase) + virus.]
= retrovirus.
| [1974 Intervirol. IV. 202 Retraviridae are enveloped virions about 100 nm in diameter... They contain about 1.5% of 60–70S RNA... Some species that have been examined also contain a small amount of DNA... All viruses in the family contain antigenically specific reverse transcriptase (RNA-dependent DNA polymerase).] 1977 Virology LXXIX. 239 Xenotropic type C retraviruses were isolated from cell-free uterine extracts of normal adult NIH Swiss mice. |