Computer analyses reveal a hobo-like element in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, which presents a conserved transposase domain common with the Tc1-Mariner transposon family

Gene

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 265-271

  Bigot, Yves ^a   Augé Gouillou, Corinne ^a   Periquet, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Interspersed repeated DNA; Transposase

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; REPETITIVE DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; GENE STRUCTURE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSPOSON;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0029826129     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00092-3     Document Type: Article

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