Rous sarcoma virus

Rous sarcoma virus
Rous sarcoma virus n a single-stranded RNA virus of the family Retroviridae (species Rous sarcoma virus of the genus Alpharetrovirus) that contains an oncogene causing Rous sarcoma

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(RSV) a usually defective virus of the genus Alpharetrovirus that produces Rous sarcoma in birds and sometimes tumors in other animals.

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