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The highly conserved coronavirus RNA polymerase and SARS
 
 
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Jim Hewlett
Finger Lakes Community College

 
   
 


Possible Audiences:

Freshman Biology Course; Intro Biotechnology courses teaching bioinformatics  

 
 


Brief Overview

RNA polymerase from coronavirus from a variety of different hosts are compared to sequences obtained from strains of the new SARS virus from Hong Kong, Vietnam and North America.  

 
   
 


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Resources and References

Stephensen CB, Casebolt DB, Gangopadhyay NN. 1999. Phylogenetic analysis of a highly conserved region of the polymerase gene from 11 coronaviruses and development of a consensus polymerase chain reaction assay. Virus Res 60(2):181-9.  

 
   
 


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Attachments


- sequences.txt
- tree.jpg
- coronavirus.pdf
- SARS.pdf