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Indeed, it has been estimated that the deleterious mutation rate in viruses that replicate using RNA polymerases (either reverse transcriptase in the case of retroviruses or RNA-dependent RNA polymerase for other RNA viruses) is on the order of one error per replication cycle, so that many of the viral progeny produced by replication are defective (Elena and Moya 1999).
This strategy is likely to work well for retroviruses like HIV because their genomes are so compact that individual sequence regions often perform multiple functions.
Pseudotyped retroviruses containing the vesicular stomatitis virus G protein are more robust, and can be concentrated more than 100-fold by ultracentrifugation without significant loss of viral infectivity.
Evidence suggests that at least some of these retrovirus-like elements are infectious and have been classified as insect retroviruses [ 13, 14, 15] or errantiviruses [ 16].
The two cell lines that did not display a decrease in Tag during exponential growth were transformed with retroviruses utilizing the retroviral LTR.