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. 2003 May 15;7(8):261–266. doi: 10.1016/0168-9525(91)90326-L

Diversity of coding strategies in influenza viruses

Robert A Lamb a, Curt M Horvath b
PMCID: PMC7173306  PMID: 1771674

Abstract

Influenza viruses have exploited a variety of strategies to increase their genome coding capacities. These include unspliced, spliced, alternatively spliced and bicistronic mRNAs, translation from overlapping reading frames and a coupled stop-start translation of tandem cistrons.

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