Evolutionary relationships among the members of an ancient class of non- LTR retrotransposons found in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1390-1402

  Marín, Ignacio ^a   Plata Rengifo, Piedad ^b   Labrador, Mariano ^c   Fontdevila, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Endonuclease; Genome project; Horizontal transmission; Non LTR retrotransposon; Reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; HELMINTH DNA;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; SCHISTOSOMA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; SCHISTOSOMA; TREMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, HELMINTH; ENDONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0031762153     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025867     Document Type: Article

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