Relationships between Transposable Elements Based Upon the Integrase-Transposase Domains: Is There a Common Ancestor?

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 359-368

  Capy, Pierre ^a   Vitalis, Renaud ^a   Langin, Thierry ^b   Higuet, Dominique ^c   Bazin, Claude ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Horizontal transfers and alternative hypotheses; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTEGRASE; RNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; RETROVIRUS; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROVIRIDAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 0030005868     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02337546     Document Type: Article

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