Structure of the Chlorella Zepp retrotransposon: Nested Zepp clusters in the genome

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 256-263

  Noutoshi, Y ^a   Arai, R ^a   Fujie, M ^a   Yamada, T ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorella; Full length copy; LINE like retrotransposon; Long 3' noncoding region; Nested integration

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA; GENE CLUSTER; GENOME; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORELLA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; DROSOPHILA; GENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE;

ALGAE; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0031715018     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050811     Document Type: Article

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