Determination of the entire sequence of turtle CR1: The first open reading frame of the turtle CR1 element encodes a protein with a novel zinc finger motif

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1206-1217

  Kajikawa, Masaki ^a   Ohshima, Kazuhiko ^a   Okada, Norihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CR1 element; LINE; Retrotransposon; SINE; SL1 TIF IB; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; RETROPOSON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TURTLE;

EUKARYOTA; GALLUS GALLUS; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030731154     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025730     Document Type: Article

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