A single lineage of R2 retrotransposable elements is an active, evolutionarily stable component of the Drosophila rDNA locus

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1232-1241

  Lathe III, Warren C ^a   Eickbush, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; R2; Reverse transcriptase; Ribosomal RNA genes; Sequence evolution; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE LOCUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030782396     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025732     Document Type: Article

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