Neutral evolution of ten types of mariner transposons in the genomes of Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 751-769

  Witherspoon, David J ^a,b   Robertson, Hugh M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans genome; Insertion deletion spectrum; Mariner transposable element; Selection

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; SPECIES; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE DELETION;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEMATODA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0012830550     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-002-2450-x     Document Type: Article

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