Evolutionary conservation and molecular characteristics of repetitive sequences of drosophila koepferae

Heredity

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 355-366

  Marín, Ignacio ^a   Fontdevila, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Gypsy; LINE; Repetitive DNA; Repleta group

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 0030131111     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1996.53     Document Type: Article

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